Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

A. J. Liebling's Popular Quotes

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that…

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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

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I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Isl…

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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