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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow
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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 59 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 25
Died: 1967
Died: April 27
Journalist
Greensboro
North Carolina
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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.
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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.
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Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.
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Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
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All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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To be credible we must be truthful.
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We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
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The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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