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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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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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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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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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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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