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"Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done." »Fred Allen
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"There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." » W. Somerset Maugham
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"The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media." »Eduard Sagalaev
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"The medium is the message." »Marshall McLuhan
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"My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare." »Fred Allen
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." »Carl Sagan
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"Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done." »Ernie Kovacs
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"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself." »Pauline Kael
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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics." »Jane Addams
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"Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea." »Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
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"I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value," »Walt Whitman
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"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." »T.S. Eliot
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." »Martha Graham
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"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." »Bertrand Russell
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"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
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"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings." »Felix Frankfurter
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"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth." »Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
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"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." »Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
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