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Edwin Newman, born on January 25, 1919, was a renowned American news broadcaster. Known for his clear, accurate, and objective reporting style, Newman's career spanned over half a century and witnessed significant changes in the American news industry.

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“Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.”

Ideas Values Lost

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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“To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.”

Children Government Nations Parent Leader Teacher Television Involved Get Involved Programmers Harness

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“We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.”

World Bigs Television Ought

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“In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.”

America Rivers Decades Boiling Boiling Point

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“Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.”

Mind Mean Faces Talking Phrases Substitutes Face To Face

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“Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.”

People Energy Worry Communication Amount Communicate Enormous Useless

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.”

Wells Language Simple Speech Direct Clarity Decline Eloquence Departed Banality Pomposity

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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“Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.”

President Century Duty Higher Vices Triumph Preparing Israeli Exaggeration Vice President Diplomatic Kissinger Disengagement President Ford

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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“William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.”

Doe Speak Results Remarkable Eloquence

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“Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.”

Wells America Language Judgment Glad Mature

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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“In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.”

Source: Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

“Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.”

People Made Said Social Sides Middle Scientist Scholarship Abraham Multiplicity Socioeconomic Status

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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“Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.”

Feels Sound Television Accents Inferiors Fashionable Television Commercials

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

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About the Author

Born: January 25, 1919
Died: August 13, 2010
Known for: Newscaster
Quotes: 13

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