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Eric Sevareid Biography

Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys". He was the first to report the fall of Paris when it was captured by the Germans during World War II. Traveling into Burma during World War II, his aircraft was shot down and he was rescued from behind enemy lines by a search and rescue team established for that purpose. He was the final journalist to interview Adlai Stevenson before his death. He followed in Murrow's footsteps as a commentator on the CBS Evening News for 12 years for which he was recognized with Emmy and Peabody Awards.

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Besides, Christmas, Day, Holiday, Xmas, Year

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Dealing, Ducks, Executives, Life, Nibbled, Television

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

Helped, Helping Others, People, Personal, Responsibility

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Boys, Men, Order, Power

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

Club, Clubs, Earth, Media, Thrown, Whatsoever

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

Adults, Anticipation, Children, Christmas, Memories

There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.

Magic, People, Sucker, Two, World

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

Gardener, Hands, Sentences, Vegetation, Words

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

American, American Society, Distinguished, Hallmark, Society

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

Anarchy, Choices, Choose, Dictatorship, Given, People

The major cause of problems are solutions

Cause, Causes, Problem, Problems, Solutions

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.

Boys, Difference, Differences, Men

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling. '

Calling, Jobs, People, Quirk, Referring

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

Guy, Home, Knowledge, Miles, Ordinary

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

Brotherhood, Dream, Postponing, Pretend, Profit

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make. "

Bravery, Fur, Know, Mile, Principles

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Honor, Humor, Power, Thing, World

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

Appearance, Candidate, Essential, Essentials, President, Wisdom

It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all. . . The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

Alternative, Army, Erosion, Issues, Liberties, Surveillance

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Constant, Dissonance, Never Quit, Thousand, Voice, Worry

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