"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity."
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"We go forward looking in the rearview mirror."
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"Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy."
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"The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality."
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"There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends."
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"The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends."
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"The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times."
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"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
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"The future of work consists of learning a living."
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"Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose."
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"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
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"What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education."
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"Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time."
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"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
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"What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception."
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"Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems."
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"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it."
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"All words, in every language, are metaphors."
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"The mother tongue is propaganda."
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"Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly."
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