To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

About Aleister Crowley

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

—Norman Mailer

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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

—Joseph Campbell

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History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.