Quotes by Henry R. Luce - Page 1

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
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Should
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To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.
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Missions
Shows
Mission
Undertaken
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I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
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Heart
Journalist
World
Come
Became
Close
Possible
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Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
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Men
Claims
Illusion
Objectivity
Man Me Who
Illusions
Objective
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It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
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Balance
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Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
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Journalism
Profession
Publishing
Essentially
Nor
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I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.
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Drs
Thinking
Vision
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Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
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Defense
Past
Reading
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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
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Men
Balance
Balance Sheets
Sheets
Writing
Read
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Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
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Discovery
Easier
Poet
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The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.
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Degrees
Vigor
World
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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
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Future
Exercise
Foresight
Occupation
Any
Calculation
Dealing
Instinctive
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I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
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Journalism
Our Time
Posterity
Tradition
Want
Institution
Practiced
Suggest
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I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.
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Epic
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Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.
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Art
Numbers
People
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To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)
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Army
Photography
Shadow
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