"Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them."

-- Carl Bernstein

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“In love, we are best pleased when we please others.”
“Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.”
“Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.”
“Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.”
“[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.”
“You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.”

Source : Bill Lee (2003). “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History”, Triumph Books (IL)
“I canâ€™t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.”
“I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.”

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