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Reporters do it for a story.
Reporters do it for the sensation it causes.
REPORTER: Senator, are you for or against the MX missile system?
SENATOR: Bob, the MX missile system reminds me of an old saying that the country folk in my state like to say....
REPORTER: "What would you do if you found a million dollars?
YOGI BERRA: "If the guy was poor, I would give it back....
Report me and my cause aright. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc. 2
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 abominabl...
REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
REP: Randomly Execute Programme
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.
We have the best politicians th...
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...

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