"The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings."

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Source : "Abroad At Home; Getting Even" by Anthony Lewis, www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1985.

Robert Bork

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“The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.”
“Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.”
“The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.”
“The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.”
“Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.”
“Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
“Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.”
“My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.”

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