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"Mosquitoes have caused more deaths than all the wars. Guppies devour mosquito larvae so may be the best defense against them...We budget billions for military systems. Preposterous! Spend it on guppies!" (letter to the editor, Eugene newspaper)
He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits.
It is better to have loved and lost than to have hated and won.
Ad from newspaper:
'Dinner Special--Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00.'
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'."-- Mark Twain
"I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit."-- Dave Barry
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."-- Tom Stoppard
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users.'-- Edward Tufte
A dark past creates a long path back to the surface.
It is better to waste one's youth, than to do nothing at all with it.-- Courteline
It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.-- Andre Gide
Bagdikian's Observation:
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' on a ukelele.
...postmodernity, once the plaything of smarty-pants French guys, in truth belongs to the engagingly stupid. (Newsweek)
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.-- Terry Pratchett