Quotes with printing-press

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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Johnson It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Barbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Carl Rowan My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bhagat Singh My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bill Flores My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Barry Ritholtz One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bob Schieffer People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Virgil Press no further with hate.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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