London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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The freedom to be cruel is one of journalism’s uncontested privileges, and the rendering of subjects as if they were characters in bad novels is one of its widely accepted conventions.
~ Janet Malcolm
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It is clear that international law must evolve, even if it will be difficult to find the new and appropriate notions that will allow it to. However, it is unlikely that we will ever be capable of building a world that is qualitatively better than we ourselves are.
~ Sam Nunberg
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Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
~ Walter Kirn
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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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In the common perception, there is something unseemly about young people getting rich. Getting rich is supposed to be the reward for hard work, preferably arriving when you are too old to enjoy it.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Liars are exhausting people.
~ Walter Kirn
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A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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