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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

TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
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
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
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
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
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
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter

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