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Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be p

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production — only to produce a race of bed-wetters! – Barbara Ehrenreich

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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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movies
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. – Goodman Ace

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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. – Roald Dahl

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Television

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown

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Television

Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. – Jim Urbanovich

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Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring. – will.i.am

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Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. – Shawn Johnson

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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway

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