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It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
A. J. Liebling
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A. J. Liebling
Age: 59 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 18
Died: 1963
Died: December 28
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War Correspondent
New York City
New York
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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