The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Edward R. Murrow
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  2. Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. - Paulo Coelho

  3. How would your life be different if… You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day… You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. - Steve Maraboli

  4. How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. - Marcus Aurelius

  5. A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only... - Criss Jami

More Quotes By Edward R. Murrow
  1. Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

  2. We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  3. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  4. No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

  5. 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...

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