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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food
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Man is Gods highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. – Samuel Butler

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God
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do. – Jslayeruk, “Random points,” post after July 2005 London subway bombings

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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Media

Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. – Lord Northcliffe

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Media

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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Media

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Most of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are out of tune. – Terri Guillemets

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Body

I do not now begin,–I still adore
Her whom I early cherishd in my breast;
Then once again with prudence dispossessd,
And to whose heart Im driven back once more.
The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love,
Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad… – Johann von Goethe

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In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. – Hunter S. Thompson

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. – Author Unknown

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Baseball