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Bergen Evans Biography

Bergen Baldwin Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) was a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host. He received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1957 for excellence in broadcasting for his CBS TV series The Last Word.

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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Avidly, Echoing, Glitter, Magpies, Words, Writing

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

May, Past

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Cynicism, Madness, Stoicism, Wisdom

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Abhorrence, Mere, Vice, Vices, Virtue

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Able, Aggressive, Inner, Leadership, Likely, Motivated

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Average, College, Cultured, Leadership, Part, Way

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Bullied, Honorable, Honorable Man, Hypothesis, Man, Men

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Abandons, Humanity, Man, Men, Moral, Religion

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Doubt, Fear, Freedom, Meaningless, Memorial Day, Thought

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Following, Leader, Leaders, Merely, Part, Way

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Critic, Dashes, Greatest, Punctuation Marks, Thinking, Writing

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Selection, Wisdom

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Civilized, Coffee, Lives, Spoons

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Civilized, Men, Obligation, Statements, Trust, Wisdom