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Kingman Brewster, Jr. [1919-1988] American
Rank: 104
Educator


Kingman Brewster Jr. was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat.

Cool, Travel

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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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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
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We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
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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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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. Travel
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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.
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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. Cool
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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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The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
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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.
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