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For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.


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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.


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I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.
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I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.


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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!


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Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.


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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.


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The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.


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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.
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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.


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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.


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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.


Joseph Addison
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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