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• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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• Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Iraq, Groups

  President Bush's Press Conference at the White House, www.nytimes.com. April 13, 2004.

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• Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long

  Kara Swisher

  Long, Watches, Minorities

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• More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Men, Steel, Defeated

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• The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

  Dick Spring

  Government, Accepted, British

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• Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Reality, Psych, Tumbling Down

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• Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

  Sue Sanders

  Succeed

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• I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  School, Sea, Fishing

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• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Character, Men

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• Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer.

  Helen Caldicott

  Cancer, Risk, Radiation

  "How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation" by Helen Caldicott, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.

  Morton Blackwell

  Action

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• Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

  Plautus

  Enemy, Rumor, Different

  "Persa". III, 1, 23,

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

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• The reality is more excellent than the report.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Excellent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

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• The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mind, Scandal

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• When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Noise, Abundance

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.9

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• When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Sports, Accomplishment, News

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

  Aeschylus

  People, Great Power

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• A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Wish, President, Dare

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• We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Advice, Honest, Heroines

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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• Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Bill Bradley

  Demise, Said, Mark

  "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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• People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Stress, Technology, People

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• Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.

  Larry Elder

  Country, Media, Rights

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• Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Believe, Iran, Way Forward

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