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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Wilson Mizner
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
Albert Camus
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"Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager
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"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time.""
Stephen King
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"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."
Kwame Nkrumah
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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
Samuel Adams
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"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men."
Marcus Garvey
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"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something."
African proverb
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"The reason two antelope walk together is so that one can blow the dust out of the eyes of the other."
African proverb
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"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..."
Lawrence Clark Powell
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"The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered."
Joey Skaggs
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"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."
Kingman Brewster
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"Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer
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"There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself."
Michael Pollan
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
Geoffrey Fisher
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
W. H. Auden
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"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
Bruce Jackson
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"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence."
John Lahr
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"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
Herbert Gold
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"And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is."
Paul Auster
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"In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen."
Thierry Henry
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"Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
Rita Mae Brown
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"In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder."
John Masefield
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"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
Freda Adler
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"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day."
Orison Swett Marden
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"Language can be abstracted, language can be used as a very beautiful code in poetry, the nuances and the multiple meanings of things, it has a music to it. It has so many things in it. It is also reduced from prose and therefore can be both mathematical, or very, very abstract."
Jim Jarmusch
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