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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.
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
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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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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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