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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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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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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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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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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
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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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It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.
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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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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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To be credible we must be truthful.
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