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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 20, 2017
Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)  
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964  
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)  
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"  
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