Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop
James Alonzo "Jim" Bishopwas an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln was Shot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 November 1907
CountryUnited States of America
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
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Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
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A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
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The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work.
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While not being able to burn debris may inconvenience some individuals, holding off from burning until fire conditions are less dangerous makes good sense.
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What was unexpected was the quantity of iron we found in the samples. Perhaps iron triggered the bloom. Was it from Asian dust as many has widely believed, or did it come from somewhere else?
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We took two of the kids up to the flight deck, and that made their day,
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We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.
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We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters).