Neil Postman Quotes
It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
Quotes to Explore
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
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I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
