I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

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It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

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If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

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Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as...

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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to...

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What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at...

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I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a...

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

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It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.