There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. -Henry R. Luce

 

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.


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Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

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Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

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Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. -Henry R. Luce
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I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

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To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

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Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called 'news') which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it. -Henry R. Luce
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I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

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