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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

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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This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.
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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.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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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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To be credible we must be truthful.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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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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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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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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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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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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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.
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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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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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