"I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news."

Johnson, Ben on newspapers   

"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."

Lamb, Charles on newspapers   

"Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Mailer, Norman on newspapers
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"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."

Miller, Arthur on newspapers   

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."

Orwell, George on newspapers   

"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on newspapers   

"Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage."

Stanton, Will on newspapers   

"It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell."

Storey, Wilbur F. on newspapers   

"Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon."

Wilde, Oscar on newspapers   

"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."

Tracy, Brian on expectation   

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

Hill, Napoleon on money
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"Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on flattery
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"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."

Steele, Sir Richard on flattery   

"He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive."

Proverb, Italian on flattery
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"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them."

Butler, Samuel on books - reading
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand on illusion
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"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not."

Beadle, E. R. on illusion   

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

Kettering, Charles F. on change
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"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

Kettering, Charles F. on imagination   

"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!"

Collier, Robert on imagination   

"You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."

Holtz, Lou on criticism
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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."

Holtz, Lou on complaints and complaining
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"Never excuse, never explain, never complain."

Motto on complaints and complaining
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"Every soul which is born on Earth comes to bring unique, never-seen-before contributions to life on this planet. Your unique gifts can create a life of greater worth, quality and value. It only takes a token degree of willingness to show up. I have seen the Transmission perform miracles: radical, unexpected and massively positive improvements within a short time."

Oshana Dave on unique, perfect and miraculous gifts only you were born to share   

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

Desai, Morarji on achievement
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on achievement
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Orwell, George on tragedies
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

Orwell, George on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

Kinder, Jack on achievement
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"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."

Macy, John on simplicity
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"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on thoughts and thinking
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"A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years."

Taylor, Isaac on thoughts and thinking   

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us."

Unknown, Source on death
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster."

Asimov, Isaac on dream
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"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."

Burroughs, William S. on dream
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers."

Saying, Jewish on mothers
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