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“On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,'' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.”

Mean Bigs Wish Industry Majors Increase Profit Newspapers These Days Behalf English Major

Author:Dave Barry

“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.”

Names Wish Duty Goes On Performances Silent Newspapers Strict

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”

Stills Reading Wish Humour Drinking Newspapers Tea Possessed Puritanism Tea Drinking

Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind

“[Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to file. On the other hand, because space is infinite there will hopefully be more room for thoughtful pieces, longer pieces, the kind that a journalist wishes he or she could do but doesn't have the space.”

Kind Hands Wish Space Rooms Race Pieces Infinite Newspapers Plenty Hopefully Journalist Thoughtful Seconds Files Deadline Ulcers

Author:Russ Wilcox

“I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.”

Ifs Wish Cold Murder Newspapers Horrible Cold Blooded

Book:The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868

Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868