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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling

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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. – Ramsey Clark

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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. – Barry Commoner

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In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. – Robert Greene Ingersoll, “The New Testament,” Some Reasons Why, 1881

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But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? – Jimmy Connors

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