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“In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.”
Bernard Shaw
“What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,”
“You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things that this network does routinely, and the kinds of people that work for CNN ... are a testament to what Ed Turner stood for.”
“We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.”
“When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
“Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.”
“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“England and America are two countries divided by a common language.”
