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Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.


Harold Holzer

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HAROLD HOLZER The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
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HAROLD HOLZER For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinne...
HAROLD HOLZER Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
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HAROLD HOLZER Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.
HAROLD HOLZER We have every confidence that the negotiations are very much on track and that there will be a respo...
HAROLD HOLZER We will not be commenting until it has been received and reviewed.
HAROLD HOLZER There is no precedent for this.
HAROLD HOLZER You don't want to keep a person with her talent in perennial handcuffs. To have someone with her daz...
HAROLD HOLZER The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepp...
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HAROLD HOLZER At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take ...
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JASON FISHER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON [It was] the last word in mortuary chintz.
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TOM STOPPARD When was the last time "the finest fighting force in the history of the world" won a war?
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CHRISTOPHER RICHTER For us it's a straightforward proposition.
JEFF HARVEY About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON It was great. It was the last home game for the seniors and through losing and everything we've come...
EDDIE HOFFMAN We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironi...
BILL KURTIS Harold was the grand marshal for that July 4 parade. We decided to have him ride his own 1920 truck ...
DENNIS KESSLER What happened last year was depressing. It's depressing losing to Florida every year.
FRED GIBSON I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised,...
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AMEER MOHAMMED ISMAIL After losing last year, ... it was a great sign to come back and beat them this year.
GLENN WHITE For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read th...
TABITHA SOREN While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they d...
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ANDREW SHANLE About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
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LARRY COLLINS Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.
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HAROLD FEINSTEIN Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ...
HAROLD EVANS Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN