Charles A. Dana famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
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What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
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Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
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I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.
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All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
-- Charles A. Dana
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.
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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
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No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
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The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
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