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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newsp

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. – Ben Hecht

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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht

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