It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know.
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Edward R. Murrow was a 20th-century American broadcast journalist. Edward Roscoe Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. Read more on Wikipedia →

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