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Edwin Newman has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
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To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,…
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
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In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
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Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with…
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount…
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this…
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William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
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In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can…
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Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and…
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the…
— Hannah Arendt
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of…
— Pietro Aretino
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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
— Aristophanes
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
— Aristotle
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We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind…
— Aristotle
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those…
— Aristotle
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there…
— Aristotle
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside…
— Lance Armstrong
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