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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen. ↗


— Harrison Ford


#bring #certainly #changed #citizen #completely

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ↗


— Anatole France


#happy #ignorance #never #person #price

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗


— John Gardner


#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. ↗


— Greg Ginn


#bands #cash #distraction #else #except

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. ↗


— Jane Goodall


#any #child #college #dream #england

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ↗


— Herbert Hoover


#climbed #dictator #each #every #except

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. ↗


— Brian Ferneyhough


#destructive #distorted #except #exclusively #extent

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗


— Gilbert K. Chesterton


#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it. ↗


— Chris Christie


#believe #exceptions #i #i am #i believe

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. ↗


— W. C. Fields


#drink #except #experience #life #most






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