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“We like to think of ourselves as the most exciting theater company in Chicago". I tried a joke. "I like to think of myself as the most beautiful woman in the world. But where will that get either of us, really?”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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“But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history.”
― Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

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“Bob and I [Carl Bernstein]embraced and held each other briefly. There was a whole lifetime of emotions and journalism in this moment.”
― Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

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“Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.”
― Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

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“The North Korean state was born at about the same time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and one could almost believe that the holy father of the state, Kim Il Sung, was given a copy of the novel and asked if he could make it work in practice. Yet even Orwell did not dare to have it said that "Big Brother's" birth was attended by miraculous signs and portents - such as birds hailing the glorious event by singing in human words.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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