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A Newspaper Is A Device Which Is Unable To Discriminate Between A Bicycle Accident And The Total Collapse Of Civilization.
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A newspaper is a device which is unable to discriminate between a bicycle
accident and the total collapse of civilization.
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What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.
-- Quoted by George Polya...
The universe long ago passed the point of total collapse. -- Monitor, Logopoli
You are unable to differentiate between facade and substance.
The splendor of an editor's speech and the splendor of his newspaper are inversely related to the distance between the city in which he makes his speech and the city in which he publishes his paper.
-- Ben Bragdikia...
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ALDRICH
LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
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The following appeared in a Letter to the Editor of the Shady Village newspaper.
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Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.