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Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson II	added by Normando 4 months ago
So what we intend to do is keep the calm and keep the good inclusion, belonging, kindness, respect, but anything that creeps over into critical race theory, division, intersectionality, some voices being more valid based on the speaker and not on the merit or the virtue of the argument, we're going to separate the wheat from the chaff, keep the good and we're going to get rid of the bad. – Mike Peterson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The J-16 ... accelerated and cut across the nose of the P-8, settling in front of the P-8 at very close distance, at that moment, it then released a bundle of chaff, which contains small pieces of aluminum, some of which were ingested into the engine of the P-8 aircraft. Quite obviously, this is very dangerous. – Richard Marles	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat. – Proverb	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Right now we're trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. – David Garofalo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour?s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. – Arabic Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.

– Adlai E. Stevenson II

added by Normando
4 months ago

So what we intend to do is keep the calm and keep the good inclusion, belonging, kindness, respect, but anything that creeps over into critical race theory, division, intersectionality, some voices being more valid based on the speaker and not on the merit or the virtue of the argument, we're going to separate the wheat from the chaff, keep the good and we're going to get rid of the bad.

– Mike Peterson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The J-16 ... accelerated and cut across the nose of the P-8, settling in front of the P-8 at very close distance, at that moment, it then released a bundle of chaff, which contains small pieces of aluminum, some of which were ingested into the engine of the P-8 aircraft. Quite obviously, this is very dangerous.

– Richard Marles

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Right now we're trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.

– David Garofalo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour?s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester.

– The Dhammapada

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

– Elbert Hubbard

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

– Arabic Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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