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• On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

  Walter Scott

  Soul, Age, Glee

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).”, p.138

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• There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

  John Chancellor

  Loss, President, Ears

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• And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

  Ezra Pound

  Dust, Sweat, Orange

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  Larry Speakes

  Hunting, Finding Yourself, President

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• The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Liberty, Defense

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• Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Giving Up, Adversity, Cups

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1863). “Cithara: a selection from the lyrics of M. F. Tupper”, p.48

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• Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Long, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.145, Diversion Books

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• There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.

  Robert Morley

  Horse, Congratulations, Winning

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• Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

  Jan Tschichold

  Book, Design, Literature

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• It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Freedom, Independent, Media

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• We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

  John Lewis

  Country, Religious, Freedom

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• I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

  Michael Douglas

  Nuclear Disarmament, Differences, Leader

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• The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

  John Dewey

  School, Army, Media

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.294, SIU Press

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• The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Media, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

  Walter Lippmann

  Media, Privilege, Urban

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• Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

  Martina Navratilova

  Dog, Meat, Looks

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• Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

  Ryan Holiday

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  Ryan Holiday (2013). “Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (APenguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.11, Penguin

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• For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

  Gloria Borger

  News, Belief, Journalism

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• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  Margot Kidder

  Giving, Scary, Spooky

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspiring, Stars, Men

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• We are complete press sluts.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Animal Rights

  "The New Yorker" Magazine, April 14, 2003.

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• Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists ­ from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Artist, Animal

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• You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

  Prince Philip

  Mosquitoes, Classic

  Sain in 1966 to a hospital matron during a tour of the Caribbean. "The Reality of Monarchy" by Andrew Duncan, 1970.

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• The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

  Julian Casablancas

  Hands, Annoying, Jerk

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• Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

  Clay Shirky

  Years, Erotic, Sacred

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