Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- 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
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- 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
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
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- 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
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
Fame is morally neutral.
- 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
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
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
No one can terrorize a whole nation,
unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- 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
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow
Good night, and good luck.
- 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
A satellite has no conscience.
- 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
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
Don't let anyone else take the measure
of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are.
- Margaret Spellings
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not believe that God has
imposed suffering upon anyone
to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
- Ernest Holmes
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When you follow your bliss... doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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