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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow 
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive, we must be believable;
to be believable, we must be credible;
to be credible, we must be truthful.
- Edward R. Murrow
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Fame is morally neutral.
- Edward R. Murrow
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow.
There's nothing tangible of yesterday.
All I can say I've done is
agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes
and then boom - it's gone.
- Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
Good night, and good luck.
- Edward R. Murrow
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
No one can terrorize a whole nation,
unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ
in color for a full hour,
there would be a considerable number of stations
which would decline to carry it on the grounds
that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
- Edward R. Murrow
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem,
of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Just Do it!
- Nike ad
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Holding-on does not have to be a desperate
teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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