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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
Edward Roscoe Murrow
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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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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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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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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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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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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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The obscure we always see sooner or later the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
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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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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.
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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 satellite has no conscience.
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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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