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We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Bowls
Goldfish
Bowl
Televised
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
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Hallmark
Jargon
Profession
Incomprehensible
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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
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Ambiguity
Conscious
Refuge
Assure
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There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
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Criminal Mind
Criminals
Relief
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The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
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Fit
Program
Reader
Reading
Broadcaster
Fits
Listener
Newspaper
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It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
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Credentials
Elizabeth Ii
Refugee
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You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
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Correlation
Creative
Suffering
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
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Factual
Intellectual
Sea
Skills
Forth
Seas
Sets
Shores
Skill
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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Challenges
Expectations
Greater
Satisfaction
Challenge
Expectation
Relying
Vindicate
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The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Men
Impact
Wrestling
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It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Interesting
Paper
Quiet
Quiet Life
Significant
Daily
Vastly
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While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Home
Travel
Convenience
Faster
Hands
Reader
Spoken Word
Written Word
Absorb
Spoken
Wholly
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Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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Aim
Displeasure
Examination
Please
Reality
Risk
Ruthless
Safe Haven
Haven
Inhibited
Realities
Universities
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With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
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Echoes
Hands
Media
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Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Admiration
Calm
Capacity
Coolness
Stay Calm
Believed
Passionately
Service
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Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Generations
Mean
Stay Calm
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The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
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Generosity
Presumption Of Innocence
Spirit
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. / Educator
Ambassadors
Briefing
Function
Paper
Thinking
Ambassador
Indiscreet
Object
Prevent
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Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
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Bored
Interesting
Thinking
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It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.
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Desire
Purpose
Use
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