Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

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Church history gives you remarkable serenity. – Timothy Cardinal Dolan

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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. – Mark Twain

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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
― William Faulkner (hat-tip)

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… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
― Thomas Jefferson Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph (hat-tip)