"Men want power in order to do something.……" — Eric Sevareid
"Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something."
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28 Quotes by Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid has 28 quotes on this site.
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
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The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of…
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house…
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No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand…
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The chief source of problems is solutions.
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You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
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For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be…
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More Boy Quotes
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
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I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't…
— Jensen Ackles
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he…
— Michele Bachmann
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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See things from the boy's point of view.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself -…
— Amy Adams
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The…
— James A. Baldwin
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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet…
— Travis Barker
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I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile…
— Drew Barrymore
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no…
— Eric Berne
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