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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."


"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."


"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."


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"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
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