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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

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Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

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