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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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 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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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
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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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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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All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
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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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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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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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