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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Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
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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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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.
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I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
