Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes

• The most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting.

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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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• 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.

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• We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• 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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• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

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• The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listener must fit the broadcaster’s program.

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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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• Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

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• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

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• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite consciou.

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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.

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Birth:	17th June, 1919
Death:	8th November, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator

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