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T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple
-- The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (Television, the Drug of the Nation)

"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."
-- Dogbert (Dilbert)

Television: the bland leading the bland.

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
-- Herbert Hoover

You have to understand art all by yourself. It's not like television, where you look at it and it explains to you what you are looking at.
-- Jim Halat

If you think that mental illness interferes with financial success, just look at the average television evangelist.

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
-- Plato

There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
-- Deteriorata (from the National Lampoon Radio Dinner album)

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett

"Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy."
-- Richard M. Nixon

America was founded by drug smugglers -- rum was the drug, but smugglers nonetheless.

They call television a medium. That is because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
-- Nathalie Sarraute

"One good turn gets most of the blankets"

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Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
-- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.

"If you're one in a million, there are ten of you in New York."

Half of the people in the world are below average.

2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.

"The drug user drowns in the same pool mystics swim in."
-- Joseph Campbell

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.
-- Perry Farrell

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution.
(Kid Radd)

God must love assholes--she made so many of them.

Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright

Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas

The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.

The revolution will NOT be televised.

Is not that the nature of men and women--that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
(williamt@athena.eng.sun.com)

Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
-- Rod Serling

Most children grow up to be adults in spite of their parents, not because of them.

Law of diminishing IQ:
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.