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"The ugly truth is out there, but you have to want to know it." Sheldon Richman
"One of the world's greatest problems is the impossibility of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it." --Dave Wilbur
"The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." -- Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785.
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day." --Thomas Jeffersonto John Norvell, 1807
"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another." - Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes (Dalai Lama, b.1935)
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon
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