"We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything."

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Source : "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

Neil Postman

#Believe Quotes #Age Quotes #Made Quotes

“You fall in love with people's minds.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hugo Guiler". "Henry & June", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
“The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.”
“Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.”
“You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.”
“Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136
“I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow.”

Source : "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2013.

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