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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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"Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more." »Darby Conley
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"Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world" »The Law of Thumb
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." »Sigmund Freud
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"The medium is the message." »Marshall McLuhan
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare." »Fred Allen
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"Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done." »Ernie Kovacs
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"I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value," »Walt Whitman
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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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"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." »J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
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"You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up." »Daniel Day Lewis
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"Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now" »Clive Staples Lewis
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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 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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"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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"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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