I’d be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn’t believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don’t think it does.
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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
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Birth: | 14th January, 1919 |
Death: | 4th November, 2011 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Commentator, Journalist, Writer |
Andy Rooney was an American radio and television writer. He was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011. Rooney began his career in newspapers while in the Army when, in 1942, he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London during World War II. Later, he was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II, and one of the first to write about them. For his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal.
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