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Something Quotes by Neil Postman
- We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be…
- The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different…
- [M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).
- Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false…
- I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to…
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle