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- I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
- Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
- Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
- Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Department of Defense news briefing, February 12, 2002
- I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
- The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
- Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet.
- Welsh Proverb
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school’s curriculum.
- George F. Will (1941 - ), Newsweek, July 4, 2005
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