"When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen."

-- Will McDonough

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“You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn”
“The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.”
“I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.”
“Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.”
“Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you can make it speak. You can make it speak in many different ways.”
“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers
“I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.”
“The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world â€“ that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.”

Source : James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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