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"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." »Rita Mae Brown
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy." »Henry David Thoreau
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." »Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." »Albert Einstein
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"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment." »Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004
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"What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment." »Michael K. Hooker
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set." »Harriet Van Horne.
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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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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." »W. H. Auden
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