"David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times,"

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Source : "David Carr, New York Times Media Columnist, Has Died at 58" by Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. February 13, 2015.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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“After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.”
“I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.”

Source : "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.
“It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!”
“If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.”
“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.”
“That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course”
“it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.”
“[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageousâ€”that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.”

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