"The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources."

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Source : Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr

Walter Karp

#Powerful Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Gains Quotes

“Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.”
“People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.”
“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”
“Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.”
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.157, Counterpoint Press
“The materials shape your idea.”
“The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.”
“Where thou art, that is home.”

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