"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

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Source : Jim Bishop (1966). “Jim Bishop, reporter”

Jim Bishop

#Growing Up Quotes #Age Quotes #Ink Quotes

“My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.”
“I think self-esteem comes from work.”

Source : Source: gawker.com
“I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.”
“By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.”
“Freeman denied the claim that he was a â€œman of Godâ€, saying that â€œthe question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.”
“I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.”
“My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.”
“Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.”

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