Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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Printing
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Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon."
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"Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price."
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"The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript."
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"Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable."
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"Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers."
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"So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century."
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"The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial."
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"Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press."
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"Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint."
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"Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into."
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"The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry."
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"It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs."
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"What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?"
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