"A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press."

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Source : "Lords of the Press". Book by George Seldes, 1938.

George Seldes

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“The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.”
“the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.”
“I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.”
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
“THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.”
“The greatest single programming language ever designed”
“Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.”
“Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”

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