“ Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was alive. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
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“ Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ”
- Jane Wagner- Copy
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“ Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. ”
- Gary Player- Copy
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“ Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals. ”
- Joe Slovo- Copy
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“ The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. ”
- Greg Anderson- Copy
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“ My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. ”
- Peter Gay- Copy
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“ Our commitment to human rights, primarily of the individual, but also of our diverse ethnic and religious heritage for which we suffered, must be absolute. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
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“ In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break; and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness. ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
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“ The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”
- David Brinkley- Copy
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“ Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ I know that unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character. ”
- Betty White- Copy
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“ I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
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“ In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ”
- Huston Smith- Copy
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“ Often we place too much emphasis on the desired results, and not enough on the person we need to be to achieve and support those results. ”
- Larry Hehn- Copy
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“ The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. ”
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg- Copy
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“ The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”
- David Brinkley- Copy
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