John Chancellor Quotes

#1. In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

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#2. The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

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#3. There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

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#4. The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

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#5. I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

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#6. The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

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#7. Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

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#8. I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

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