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Gilbert K Chesterton : People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life. # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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H G (Herbert George) Wells : " Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine. And how will the new republic treat the inferior races? How will it deal with the black? how will it deal with the yellow man? how will it tackle that alleged termite in the civilized woodwork, the Jew? Certainly not as races at all. It will aim to establish, and it will at last, though probably only after a second century has passed, establish a world state with a common language and a common rule. All over the world its roads, its standards, its laws, and its apparatus of control will run. It will, I have said, make the multiplication of those who fall behind a certain standard of social efficiency unpleasant and difficult… The Jew will probably lose much of his particularism, intermarry with Gentiles, and cease to be a physically distinct element in human affairs in a century or so. But much of his moral tradition will, I hope, never die. … And for the rest, those swarms of black, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, not a charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go.The whole tenor and meaning of the world, as I see it, is that they have to go. So far as they fail to develop sane, vigorous, and distinctive personalities for the great world of the future, it is their portion to die out and disappear. The world has a greater purpose than happiness; our lives are to serve God's purpose, and that purpose aims not at man as an end, but works through him to greater issues. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Mitch Hedberg : " I hope the next time I move I get a real easy phone number, something that's real easy to remember. Something like two two two two two two two two. I would say "Sweet." And then people would say, "Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?" I'd say, "Just press two for a while. And when I answer, you will know you have pressed two enough." " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Patrick Kavanagh : " It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Jessamyn West : " People who keep journals have life twice. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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G K Chesterton : " Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Burton Rascoe : " A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Hunter S Thompson : " Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Oscar Wilde : " There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still abroad upon the earth. That the man has not fallen off a scaffolding is really more sensational; and it is also some thousand times more common. But journalism cannot reasonably be expected thus to insist upon the permanent miracles. Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. However democratic they may be, they are only concerned with the minority. " # Journalism and Journalists # Love # Marriage

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." # Love

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." # Adversity # Failure # Aphorisms and Epigrams

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament." # Arts and Artists # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean." # Conflict # Belief # Love

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that the danger was not in man's environment, but in man. Further, she has maintained that if we come to talk of a dangerous environment, the most dangerous environment of all is the commodious environment. I know that the most modern manufacture has been really occupied in trying to produce an abnormally large needle. I know that the most recent biologists have been chiefly anxious to discover a very small camel. But if we diminish the camel to his smallest, or open the eye of the needle to its largest — if, in short, we assume the words of Christ to have meant the very least that they could mean, His words must at the very least mean this — that rich men are not very likely to be morally trustworthy. Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world. For the whole modern world is absolutely based on the assumption, not that the rich are necessary (which is tenable), but that the rich are trustworthy, which (for a Christian) is not tenable. You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. The whole case for Christianity is that a man who is dependent upon the luxuries of this life is a corrupt man, spiritually corrupt, politically corrupt, financially corrupt. There is one thing that Christ and all the Christian saints have said with a sort of savage monotony. They have said simply that to be rich is to be in peculiar danger of moral wreck. It is not demonstrably un-Christian to kill the rich as violators of definable justice. It is not demonstrably un-Christian to crown the rich as convenient rulers of society. It is not certainly un-Christian to rebel against the rich or to submit to the rich. But it is quite certainly un-Christian to trust the rich, to regard the rich as more morally safe than the poor." # Politicians and Politics # Love # Happiness

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win." # Thoughts and Thinking

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." # Courage # Love # Age and Aging

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." # Advice # Success # Friends and Friendship

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." # Education # Danger # Life and Living

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Gilbert K Chesterton: " A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." # Books - Reading # Heroes and Heroism # Truth

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