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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
Egbert Roscoe Murrow
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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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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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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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It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.
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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 cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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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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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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To be credible we must be truthful.
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I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.
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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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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
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One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
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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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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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The obscure we always see sooner or later the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
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It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.
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