"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."

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Source : Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

Edward R. Murrow

#Mistake Quotes #Problem Solving Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“You will find your way. Don't be afraid of getting stuck in some of the necessary compromises. Learn everything you can from each experience, even if something seems irrelevant to your true purpose.”
“The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.”
“No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.”
“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”
“You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.”
“Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.”

Source : Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee
“I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.”
“The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.”

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.94

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