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Heywood Broun Quotes


An American journalist.
Heywood Campbell Broun was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills.

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The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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Any new system is worth trying when your luck is bad.

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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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God as some cynic has said is always on the side which has the best football coach.

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Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.