Nicolas Bentley quotes
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“No news is good news. No journalists is even better.”
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“He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.”
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“Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.”
-- Nicolas BentleySource : Nicolas Bentley (1959). “A Choice of Ornaments”
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“Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.”
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“Getting married is a serious matter for a girl; not getting married is even more serious.”
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“He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.”
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“One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.”
-- Nicolas Bentley
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Source : "The route to a sustainable future". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.
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“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
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“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
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“Journalists love to show their compassion.”
Source : "Media Unfair to Michael J. Fox And Rush Limbaugh?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2006.
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“The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.”
Source : "Not dead yet: the newspaper in the days of digital anarchy" by Bill Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.
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Source : The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)
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