"Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery,……" — Eric Sevareid
"Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.""
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Eric Sevareid
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28 Quotes by Eric Sevareid
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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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