"To harness the power of television for the……" — Edwin Newman
"To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents."
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Edwin Newman
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13 Quotes by Edwin Newman
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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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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…
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an…
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have…
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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…
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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…
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In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem…
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Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of…
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Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent…
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