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To be persuasive, we must be believable;
to be believable, we must be credible;
to be credible, we must be truthful.
- Edward R. Murrow
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Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
Fame is morally neutral.
- Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow
No one can terrorize a whole nation,
unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
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.
- Edward R. Murrow
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
Good night, and good luck.
- Edward R. Murrow
A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
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.
- Edward R. Murrow
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.
- Edward R. Murrow
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Truthful words are not beautiful;
beautiful words are not truthful.
Good words are not persuasive;
persuasive words are not good.
- Lao Tzu
Liar is a strong word, but we are all liars.
Not in the sense of intentionally speaking untruths,
but in the sense of carrying so much historical
and emotional baggage that none of us is believable.
To lie means to speak an untruth,
and virtually everything that comes out of our mouth
is an untruth - an opinion, an assumption,
a point-of-view based on our past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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