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“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations