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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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, read more
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
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We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
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.
Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.
Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.
Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
