August 31, 2006
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I think this video is very good and very important. T
his one’s also interesting. I’m always amazed at those wordsof Edward R Murrow’s whenever I hear them. I wonder how people can reach into themselves and find words that are so powerful and have such long term significance and can deliver them to such perfection. Lincoln and Martin Luther King are two other examples of people who have managed this, but the number of times that it has happened in history are few and far between. The interesting thing about all of these speeches is that what the speaker is saying is not complex, not unusual, not some profoundly subtle academic point. It’s just basic common sense stuff. But it’s stuff that’s so important and so easily forgotten that it doesn’t hurt to remind ourselves of it every day.
