"Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books."

-- A. A. Gill

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.”
“Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.48
“If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.”
“Even as we get older, we get in these routines -and routines are nice and comfortable -but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.”

Source : "Interview: Acting, Gaming, And Math Science With 'Searching For Sonny' Star Masi Oka". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. August 29, 2012.
“A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.”

Source : John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton
“The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press
“As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.”

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