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"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."

"I don't think I miss anything by not watching television."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."

"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
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"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."

"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
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