"Learn your language well and command it well,……" — Edward R. Murrow

"Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life."

— Edward R. Murrow

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57 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be…
The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded,…
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an…
A satellite has no conscience.
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus…
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and…
The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to…
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and…

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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. — Saint Augustine
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite… — Honore de Balzac
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied… — Tyra Banks
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as… — Jack Black
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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