• Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

  Ben Hecht
  American writer, playwright 1894-1964
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. newspapers
2. watching
3. second
4. clock

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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. by : Ben Hecht

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