William S. Paley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
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In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
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He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
-- William S. Paley
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The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
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Could man be drunk for ever    With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning    And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober    And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten    Their hands upon their hearts.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
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We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
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