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

Bennett Cerf

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

Country Independent Urges
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
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
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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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.
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Football Men Years
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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
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 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
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter

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