The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.

Horace Greeley
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  2. Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living. - David Baldacci

  3. You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. - Warren Ellis

  4. If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. - Norman Mailer

  5. Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. - Fran Lebowitz

More Quotes By Horace Greeley
  1. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

  2. I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

  3. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

  4. While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  5. Common sense is very uncommon.

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