Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes

• There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Criminals, Relief, Criminal Mind

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• The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Presumption Of Innocence, Generosity, Spirit

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• You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Creative, Suffering, Correlation

  "The Enduring American Press". Book edited by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Wrestling, Men, Impact

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• Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Thinking, Interesting, Bored

  "Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies" by Eric Pace, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 1988.

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• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Conscious, Ambiguity, Refuge

  The New York Tribune, October 14, 1963.

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• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Expectations, Challenges, Satisfaction

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Jargon, Hallmark, Profession

  Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.

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• While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Home, Hands, Convenience

  "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Echoes, Media, Hands

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• Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Mean, Stay Calm, Generations

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

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  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Goldfish, Bowls

  Lecture in St George's Chapel, Windsor, England, May 5, 1978.

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• It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Desire, Purpose, Use

  "Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies" by Eric Pace, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 1988.

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• The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Reading, Fit, Program

  "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Sea, Skills, Intellectual

  Address at University of Exeter, October 26, 1978.

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• It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Interesting, Paper, Quiet

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• It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Credentials, Refugee, Elizabeth Ii

  The Observer, July 03, 1977.

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• The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Thinking, Paper, Ambassadors

  Address in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 8, 1977.

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