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The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
Walter Lippmann
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The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.

samuel laman blanchard

— "That what Everybody Says must be True"

Tags: scarcity, truth, atoned, abundance, impugned, veracity, easily, strengthened, additional

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The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

rabindranath tagore

— 61

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Although the mainstream media has avoided any mention of this rumor, Mr. Beck has quite a task ahead of him. Shutting down one web site is like trying to eradicate Pueraria lobata the dreaded Kudzu vine that is eating the South.


— Schmidt, Steffen (October 5, 2009). Media Meme’s and Glenn Beck – Truth or Lies?. Des Moines Register. The Des Moines Register. Retrieved on 2009-10-06.

Tags: mainstream, media, avoided, mention, Beck, task, ahead, him, Shutting

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"The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies."

mumia abu-jamal

— "A Year In: More Same Than Change"

Tags: media, arm, power, feeds, fear, industry, people, primed, pumps

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Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,Some boundless contiguity of shade,Where rumor of oppression and deceit,Of unsuccessful or successful war,Might never reach me more.

william cowper

— Line 1.

Tags: lodge, vast, boundless, contiguity, shadeWhere, oppression, unsuccessful, successful, never

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Is qui scit plurimum, rumor.

seneca the younger

— That most knowing of persons – gossip.Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame, line 1.

Tags: scit, plurimum

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If a rumor comes out that I’m gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

james van der beek

— CinemaSource: James Van Der Beek Interview: Dan Deevy, January 28, 2008 [1]

Tags: gay, care, less, There, worse, things

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O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade; Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.

william cowper

— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II, line 1.

Tags: lodge, vast, wilderness, boundless, contiguity, shade, oppression, deceit, unsuccessful

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Is qui scit plurimum, rumor.


— Letter XLIII: On the relativity of fame, line 1.

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rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

stephen l. carter

— Ch. 46, Resting Places, I

Tags: rarely, more, interesting, fact, readily, available

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History, a distillation of rumor.

thomas carlyle

— Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, A History (1837), Part I, Book VII, Chapter V.

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