“I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something”

— Peter Jennings

Interview in Saturday Evening Post, quoted by USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-08-07-jennings-dies_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA (7 August 2005)
Context: I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

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