People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

—A. J. Liebling

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About A. J. Liebling

Abbott Joseph Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. His New York Times obituary called him "a critic of the daily press, a chronicler of the prize ring, an epicure and a...

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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

—A. J. Liebling

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

—A. J. Liebling

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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

—Atul Gawande

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

—Samuel Johnson

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To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures—our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity.

—Thomas Moore

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

—Gertrude Stein

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