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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20051201
Author:Anonymous

"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is unread."

-Oscar Wilde.

"There are moments when we in the newspaper business can show extraordinary sensitivity. These moments usually coincide with the death of a publisher, or a publisher's wife."

-Craig Brown.

"It is by the goodness of Cod that in the United States we have these three precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them."

-Mark Twain.

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

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