Neil Postman Quotes
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
Quotes to Explore
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
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I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.
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Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
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I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.
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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
