Henry R. Luce quotes
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“Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.”
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“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.”
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“I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”
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“Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.”
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“Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.”
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“Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.”
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“It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.”
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“Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.”
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“I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.”
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“The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.”
-- Henry R. LuceSource : Life, 17 Feb. 1941
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“Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.”
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“I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.”
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“To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.”
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“There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.”
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“I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.”
-- Henry R. Luce
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