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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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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A satellite has no conscience.
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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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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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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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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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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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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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