Quotes with papers

  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
  • America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

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  • Henry Louis Mencken A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Will Rogers All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shapiro America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Anna Held I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Alonzo Church I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Judge - A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ben Bradlee Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Lipton One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • C. S. Forester The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • A. J. Liebling The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation - both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents - and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Casey Affleck The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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