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"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest. "

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Daniel Schorr

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

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Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member. . . , or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

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There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

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Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

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"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest. "

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One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

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