Neil Postman Quotes
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.Neil Postman
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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.
Karen Allen -
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
Camilla Belle -
I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
Sam Hunt -
Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
Jack Ma -
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
R. C. Sproul -
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.
Mackenzie King
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It is neither necessary nor appropriate for the president to testify.
Charles Ruff -
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
Aristotle -
Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
Aristotle -
Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.
Albert Einstein -
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
William James -
The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
Diogenes
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal -
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.
John Milton -
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.
William E. Simon -
It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Edgar Allan Poe -
We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.
Mother Teresa
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.
Sergey Lavrov -
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
A. E. van Vogt -
From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Neil Postman