“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
Albert Einstein, quoted in the Asheville, N.C., Citizen-Times
“Statistics are like bikinis. They show a lot but not everything.”
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“If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.”
Bette Davis, quoted in the New Straits Times (Malaysia)
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble in the road.”
Henry Ward Beecher, quoted in the Macon, Ga., Telegraph
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
John Kenneth Galbraith, quoted in the Associated Press
“I’ve learned one thing—people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.”
Cartoonist Al Capp, quoted in The Buffalo News
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
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3 officers killed in Pennsylvania shootingSpeed Read Police did not share the identities of the officers or the slain suspect, nor the motive or the focus of the still-active investigation
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Fed cuts interest rates a quarter pointSpeed Read ‘The cut suggests a broader shift toward concern about cracks forming in the job market’
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ABC shelves ‘Kimmel Live’ after Trump FCC threatSpeed Read ‘A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the president doesn’t like what they say’
