"I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news."

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Source : "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

Simon Hoggart

#Turkeys Quotes #Paris Quotes #News Quotes

“There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English, and editors are prescriptivist in so far as they don't want to let things they consider to be inelegant or ungrammatical into print.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers â€” and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.”

Source : "Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2013.
“one would suffer a great deal to be happy.”
“But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.”
“I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.”
“If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.”
“There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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