"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers."

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Source : "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

James G. Watt

#Tree Quotes #Environment Quotes #Newspapers Quotes

“She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.”
“You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.”
“I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.”
“What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.”
“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
“But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.”
“What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings”
“The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1978). “The Violence Within”, HarperCollins Publishers

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