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Quote Left If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. Quote Right
Quote Left Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. Quote Right
Quote Left Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man. Quote Right
Quote Left Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. Quote Right
Quote Left Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. Quote Right
Quote Left News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. Quote Right
Quote Left An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to. Quote Right
Quote Left Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Quote Right
Quote Left I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Quote Right
Quote Left He's still going to be in the news. His name is still going to be present, keeping ethics and scandal alive. Quote Right
Quote Left Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. Quote Right
Quote Left Men are not against you they are merely for themselves. Quote Right
Quote Left Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Quote Right

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