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That is the salvation and the demon of journalism, the knowledge that there is almost always a different perspective from which to see the conundrum.

— Terry Pratchett Dodger (2012)

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.

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This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

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Dodger lived in a world where nobody asked questions apart from: “How much?” and “What’s in it for me?”

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