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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it


Alexander Cockburn

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ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
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