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Bennett Cerf

The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
BENNETT CERF

Age Peace War
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
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 greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
I think it’s become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I’ve heard many people, boast, “I would never have a television set in my house,” well, these people are fools.
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Fun People Thinking
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
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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.
BENNETT CERF

Education School Teaching
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
BENNETT CERF

Beautiful Laughing Sound
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.
BENNETT CERF

Football Men Years
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
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
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Differences Effectiveness Ghost Stories
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
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BENNETT CERF

Cooking Food Speech
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!
BENNETT CERF

College Teaching Today

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