"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine……" — Ted Koppel
"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach."
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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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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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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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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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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on.…
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as…
— John le Carre
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative…
— Charles Baudelaire
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To eat is human, to digest, divine
— Mark Twain
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole…
— Thomas Carlyle
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For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in…
— Casey Affleck
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At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
— Joely Fisher
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I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information…
— Ryan Holiday
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The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this…
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