"Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books]."

-- Mike Lupica

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“Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”
“TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.”
“Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.”
“Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.”
“I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.”

Source : "Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Dies at 83". www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2005.
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.”
“I will dance and frolic with my Fronkeys from here to eternity.”

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