Quote #195
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Sometimes quoted as newspapers.)
More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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- You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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- They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.