Quote #59

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

More from Edward R. Murrow

  1. Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
  2. Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
  3. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major infl…
  4. Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
  5. I have always been on the side of the heretics against those who burned them because the heretics so often turned out to be right. Dead, bu…
  6. People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
  7. Fame is morally neutral.
  8. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

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