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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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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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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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.
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Dates are fun, but being a serial dater isn't my thing; I'd rather care about someone and be able to wear sweatpants out to dinner. That's the end goal.
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I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
