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“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999
US writer (1962 – )

“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”
Ernie Kovacs

“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
Abigail Van Buren, 1978
US advice columnist (1918 – )

“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”
Ellen Goodman
American journalist (1941 – )

“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
P. B. Medawar
British (Brazilian-born) anatomist (1915 – )

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”
Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 – 2004)

“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”

Norman Mailer
US journalist & novelist (1923 – 2007)

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”

William Penn
English religious leader and colonist (1644 – 1718)

“There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.”

Alice Thomas Ellis