Eric Sevareid Quotes

#1. Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

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#2. No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

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#3. For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

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#4. The chief cause of problems is solutions.

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#5. Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

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#6. As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

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#7. I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

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#8. The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

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#9. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

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#10. With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

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#11. The chief source of problems is solutions.

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#12. The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

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#13. People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

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#14. Most problems are caused by solutions.

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#15. You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

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#16. Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

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#17. The major cause of problems are solutions

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#18. I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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#19. Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

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#20. The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

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#21. Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

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#22. Saints are usually killed by their own people.

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#23. The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

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#24. Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

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#25. Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

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#26. Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

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#27. Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

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#28. Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

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#29. Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

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#30. The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

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#31. The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

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