Carolina QuotesExcept for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
Edward R. Murrow Carolinian
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- This I Believe (1951)
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- 1951
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