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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Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
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From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.
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I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.
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The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
