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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." 
                    Edmund Burke

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be
trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a
great fear."
                    Bertrand Russell

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

[Not only journalism, but technical communication, I’d say.]

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.

Ellen Goodman
[brought to my attention through Quotes of the Day]

Today’s Quotes of the Day blog included this one:

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach’s ‘St. Matthew’s Passion’ on a ukulele.

Ben Bagdikian is, among other things the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His newest publication seems to be The New Media Monopoly.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Michael Crichton

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

–Gertrude Stein

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

Sir Winston Churchill

“If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on ‘em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.”

Malcolm Forbes

The following sequence of quotes appeared this morning on a mailing list to which I subscribe–I added the links:

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his
own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who
denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present
opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

– Thomas Paine, 1783

“Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is
a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”

– Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”

– Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear.”

– George Orwell, 1945

“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional
rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”

– Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963

“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not
that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.”

– Robert F. Kennedy, 1964

“Go f*** yourself.”

– Dick Cheney, 2004 Alternate link

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And, of course, the entrepreneurs are moving in with T-shirts and stuff.

Thanks to Quote of the Day for this one:

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Elizabeth Jenkins

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Claire Boothe Luce

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

Diane de Poitiers

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell