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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

by Frank Loyd Wright Found in: Television Quotes,
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and read more

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them

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Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of read more

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

by Lee Loevinger Found in: Television Quotes,
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

by Chuck Palahniuk Found in: Television Quotes,
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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not read more

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

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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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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, read more

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

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