"Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies."

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Source : "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.

Fred W. Friendly

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“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
“I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below.”
“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.”
“For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.”
“Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.”
“Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.”
“Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.”
“When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.”

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