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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
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The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the…
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No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in…
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The chief source of problems is solutions.
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You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
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For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but…
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the…
— Eric Sevareid
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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There…
— James Anthony Froude
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
— William Wordsworth
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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell…
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in…
— William Shakespeare
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And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory dowe come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us…
— William Wordsworth
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