The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

—David Brinkley

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About David Brinkley

Portrait of David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

—Atul Gawande

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

—Samuel Johnson

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To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures—our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity.

—Thomas Moore

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

—Gertrude Stein

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