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Letter "B" » Bernard Shaw Quotes
«All kinds of ordnance was being dropped, all kinds of bombs, and I made my peace with myself that I could die at any moment, ... We knew the dangers around us. I always believed that two major forces -- one of them supreme -- saved us that night: God and some extremely well trained and well disciplined American pilots.»
Author: Bernard Shaw
«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
«He never ran from personal pain, but he rushed to help you with yours, ... He was rabbi, priest, chaplain and mullah when he was not morale officer-in-chief.»
Author: Bernard Shaw
«In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.»
Author: Bernard Shaw
«What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,»
Author: Bernard Shaw
«You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things that this network does routinely, and the kinds of people that work for CNN ... are a testament to what Ed Turner stood for.»
Author: Bernard Shaw
«We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.»
Author: Bernard Shaw
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