"No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out."

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Source: Can you give the public what it wants?: The need for better communications in editing, writing, broadcasting, advertising, public relations [and] teaching.

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Edgar Dale

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Edgar Dale was an influential educator known for his work on experiential learning and the Cone of Experience, which transformed teaching methods.

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"One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed."

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