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Eric Sevareid [1912-1992] American

Rank: 104
Journalist

Arnold Eric Sevareid was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys".

Home, Humor, Power, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.	Home	101
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.	Trust	102
The chief cause of problems is solutions.		103
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.		104
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.		105
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.		106
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.	Humor, Power	107
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.		108
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.		109
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.		110

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