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I learned how easy it was for any man to do what he wanted to do, provided he really wanted to do it badly enough.

— E. W. Scripps Damned Old Crank (1951)

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Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

I believe that few people aside from myself have any idea of the tremendous, the almost invincible power and force of the daily press. I am one of those who believe that at least in America the press rules the country; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practice.

Damned Old Crank (1951)

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