"I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television"

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Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

#Television Quotes

“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.”
“Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.”
“Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.”
“The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.”
“Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.”
“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”
“Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.”
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

Source : "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse , p. 123, 1919.

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