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Letter "E" » Edward R. Murrow Quotes
«Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.»
«People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.»
«If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
considerable, decline, grounds, in color, profitable, quiz, Second Coming, stations, The Second Coming
«The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
blunt, cutting, cutting edge, inexactitude, Return to, rounded, trained
«Good night, and good luck.»
«The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| About:
Communication,
Computers
| Keywords:
communicator, communicators, compound, compounding, compounds, confronted, Human Relations, newest, oldest, relations, speed
«We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.»
«A satellite has no conscience.»
«A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
agitate, agitated, boom, booming, reporter
«After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.»
Author: Edward R. Murrow
(Journalist)
| About:
Debate
| Keywords:
debate, Douglas, Lincoln, Messieurs, Monsieur
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