Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
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Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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