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"editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"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
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"There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper'" »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." »Alvin Toffler
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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." »Ring Lardner
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"It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell
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"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper." »Stanislaw Lec
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"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson
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"If you're ever confused as to the value of newspaper editors, look at the blog world. That's all you need to see." »Eric Schmdit
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"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." »Arthur Miller
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." »Henry Fielding
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"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." »Norman Mailer
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." »Thomas Jefferson
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." »Aleister Crowley
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." »Aleister Crowley
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"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you." »Helen Rowland
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"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." »Harry S Truman
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"Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones." »Albert Einstein
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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself." »Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
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"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal
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"Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page." »Neil Postman
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"There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist." »Joe Keenan
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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"" »Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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