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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
Egbert Murrow
Edward Murrow
Ed Murrow
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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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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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All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
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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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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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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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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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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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.
Edward R. Murrow
Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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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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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
Edward R. Murrow
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.
Edward R. Murrow
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.
Edward R. Murrow
