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“We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”

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Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

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Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

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What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might…

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Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own…

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Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left…

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“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper management of one’s external appearances,” he writes, “simply signals to one’s superiors that one is prepared to undertake other kinds of self-adaptation.” By dressing correctly, right down to the accessories, you let it be known that…

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war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

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Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

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Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension…

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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old…

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Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

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To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative…

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It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

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My first match was on television with no buffer, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I feel like I've learned faster than…

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The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.…

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Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss…

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Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.

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Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

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