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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

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
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Ideas
Exalt
Importance
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A satellite has no conscience.
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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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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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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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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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To be credible we must be truthful.
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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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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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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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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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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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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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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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