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There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Bennett Cerf

Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
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Book Home Teenager
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
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
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Intelligent Rights Thinking
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
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
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
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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Believe Discovery Soul
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

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