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“I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.”
Source : "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. July 29, 1996. 
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“Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.”
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“I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.”
Source : "Thomas Horn's incredibly fast start to career". Interview with Jessica Zack, www.sfgate.com. January 15, 2012.
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“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”
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“I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.”
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“Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.”
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“A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.”
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“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
Source : Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.45, Penguin
