Samuel Butler's Quote - The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines

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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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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. – Samuel Butler

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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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