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Neil Postman has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
• It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
• For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is…
• But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our…
• Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.
• Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even…
• A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.…
• I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world.…

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