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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

Bennett Cerf

TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
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
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
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
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
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
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
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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Cooking Food Speech
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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
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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter

I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

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