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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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
Egbert Murrow
Edward Murrow
Ed Murrow
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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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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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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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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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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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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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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 cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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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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A satellite has no conscience.
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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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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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To be credible we must be truthful.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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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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