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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.


Joseph Pulitzer

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JOSEPH CONRAD Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ...
JOSEPH MCKENNA If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER