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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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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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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Despotism is a long crime.
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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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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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Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
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One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.
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I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
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I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.
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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
