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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

Bennett Cerf

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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Else Nothing People Television
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert’s writing was hazy, Ep’s statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
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Crazy Poetry Writing
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!
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College Teaching Today
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Age Birthday Middle
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
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Football Men Years
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
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Education School Teaching
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
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Book Country Facts

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