"The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment."

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Source : "US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2010.

Simon Jenkins

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“There is no law governing all things.”
“Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?”

Source : "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.
“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”

Source : Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.154, Profile Books
“Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2009). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, OUP Oxford
“I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.”
“Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.”
“Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.”
“No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.”

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