02-16-2018, 04:16 AM | #3796 |
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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
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02-16-2018, 04:33 AM | #3797 | |
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In brief, it's not Mark Twain, but some random person on Usenet in 2000. The origin of the phrase in that post is unknown, but Thomas Jefferson actually wrote something along the same lines in an 1807 letter: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day [...] I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." |
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Thanks for that. I should have remembered what Abraham Lincoln once said, "don't believe everything you read on the internet."
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03-04-2018, 09:47 PM | #3802 |
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'In the life of the soul, as in the physical life, there is an inspiration and a respiration; the soul needs to absorb the sentiments of another soul and assimilate them, that it may render them back enriched. Were it not for this glorious human phenomenon, there would be no life for the heart; air would be wanting; it would suffer, and then perish.'
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"Well, I don't know what will happen now; we've got some difficult days ahead. (Amen) But it really doesn't matter to with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. (Yeah) [Applause] And I don't mind. [Applause continues] Like anybody, I would like to live a long life–longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. (Yeah) And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. (Go ahead) And I've looked over (Yes sir), and I've seen the Promised Land. (Go ahead) I may not get there with you. (Go ahead) But I want you to know tonight (Yes), that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land."
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