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I want to report a murder... no, a double murder. They are two miles north of Park Headquarters. They were in a white Volkswagen Kharmann Ghia. I'm the one that did it. – Zodiac Killer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense. – Menander	added by anonymous 12 years ago
In no wise ask about the faults of others, for he who reporteth the faults of others will report thine also. – Firdausi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
It is expected from the government officials and the financial sector to selectively report on the good news to avoid investors panic and maintain confidence in the economy. Unfortunately building confidence has been the name of the game since the beginning of the crisis rather than real economic reforms. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable. – Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us. – Connie Chung to Johnny Carson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.... – Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. – William Penn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. – Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962. – John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The report of my death was an exaggeration. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. – Norman R. Augustine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened. – Newt Gingrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – A. Whitney Griswold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college. – Bill Vaughan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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