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

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News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

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

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

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

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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

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