"For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading."

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Louis Kronenberger

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“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”
“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”
“It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.”
“I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.”
“The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.”
“I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.”
“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. Itâ€™s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises menâ€™s unsupported overconfidence.”

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