Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

—Edward R. Murrow

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.

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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.

—Edward R. Murrow

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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

—Edward R. Murrow

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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

—Edward R. Murrow

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

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Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine.

—Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

—William Hazlitt

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