"The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them."

-- Neil Postman

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“On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.”
“For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.”

Source : Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”
“I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.”
“Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.”
“I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't place high enough to go to the games, but, still, it was a blast.”

Source : "'Glee': Dot-Marie Jones talks the never-been-kissed Coach Beiste". Interview with Tim Stack, www.ew.com. November 10, 2010.
“Whatever your weakness, thereâ€™s a hellion to exploit it.”
“There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.”

Source : "Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'". Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Transcript, thinkprogress.org. January 19, 2007.
“I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.”

Source : "Meet La Belle Anglaise" By Anna Pursglove, Evening Standard, December 15, 2000.

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