"Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Jobs Quotes #Media Quotes #Diagnosis Quotes

“Itâ€™s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where theyâ€™re not quite telling each other the truth and theyâ€™re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.”
“When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.”
“Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.”

Source : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr
“Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.”
“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”
“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
“True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

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