"History is a tool used by politicians to……" — Ted Koppel
"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."
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24 Quotes by Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel has 24 quotes on this site.
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If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to…
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Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid…
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There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless…
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that…
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite…
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look…
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There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something…
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What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
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To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They…
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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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