"Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks."

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Source : Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.

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“there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive.”
“Every day was a good day at UCLA.”
“He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.”
“I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.”
“Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.”
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”
“War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in the long, long night, When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.111
“I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.”

Source : Song: I've Got My Faults, Album: Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.

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