Quote by Roald Dahl
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away,

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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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. – Roald Dahl

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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. – Roald Dahl

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. – Roald Dahl

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Television
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. – Carl Bernstein

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Television

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. – Jean Baudrillard

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Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator. – Marc Fumaroli

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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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Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether its business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you dont love what youre doing and you cant give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. Youll be an old man before you know it. – Al Lopez

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Let every man be true and every god a liar. – Samuel Butler

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