Neil Postman Quotes
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
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We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
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It is neither necessary nor appropriate for the president to testify.
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
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I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.
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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
