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People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.
Walter Cronkite
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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
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I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!
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The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
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I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.
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Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
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I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
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For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders.
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The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
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Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there
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I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
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A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
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We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
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