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There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 25
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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
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I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
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I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
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