"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because theyâ€™re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."

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Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

Ben Bradlee

#Thinking Quotes #Editors Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.”
“In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obviously, that has its own place, and it's a beautiful way of doing it. But I don't think I am the first to point out that in Africa, the more buzzing the sound is, the more it indicates the other world - the spirit world.”

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“I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.”
“If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.”
“I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.”

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“Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.”
“Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.”
“As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.”

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