Eason Jordan Quotes
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Quotes to Explore
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.
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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
