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"For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go."
"He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news."
"I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission."
"I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper."
"A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does."
"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news."
"Nobody likes the man who brings bad news."
"Truth and news are not the same thing."
"It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better."
"A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting."
"Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man."
"People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it."
"Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball." "Well, that's a lot of..." "Don't you dare, Sam."
"Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart."
"The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld."
"The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need."
"Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not."
"I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live."
"The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!"
"Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner."
