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- Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
- J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), Anthropologist (1901-1978)
- Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- That's the irony of women in charge, they don't like other women in charge.
- Michael R. Perry, House M.D., Deception, 2005
- Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
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