Quote by G.K. Chesterton
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Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton

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What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. – G.K. Chesterton

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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. – Eric Sevareid, The Press and the People, 1959

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If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators. – Patrick J. Buchanan

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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley

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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. – Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. – A. R. Ammons

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If the experience of science teaches anything, its that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. – John Polkinghorne

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