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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 01, 2013
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)  
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)  
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)  
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