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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Ben Hecht, (Feb 28 1893-1964), US novelist, playwright, screenwriter; He wrote many novels about city life and co-wrote many Hollywood and Broadway hits, including Front Page, 1928.

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