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    By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is read more

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

by Rod Serling Found in: Television Quotes,
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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

by Nicholas Johnson Found in: Television Quotes,
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in read more

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

by David Frost Found in: Television Quotes,
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My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do read more

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man

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When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit read more

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

by Newton Minnow Found in: Television Quotes,
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All television is children's television.

All television is children's television.

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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under read more

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

by Newton N. Minow Found in: Television Quotes,
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and read more

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

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