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Quote by Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right plac

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain

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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. – Mark Twain

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891

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If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use? – Author Unknown

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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