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Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Ted Koppel

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Ted Koppel
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 8
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Edward James Martin Koppel
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.
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If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
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There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common
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There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
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Every single of us is going to be saying, Thank God, finally, an interesting convention. But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
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But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.
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You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
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It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
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Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on one side and the Islamic world on the other. That's exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we start with thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it.
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They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.
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