Quote by Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty

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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? – Jean Baudrillard

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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history. – Jean Baudrillard

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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity. – Jean Baudrillard

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Television? No good will come of this device. The word is half Greek and half Latin. – Author Unknown

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I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. – Jason Love

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Television

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Television

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. – Attributed to Gene Baylos

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Television

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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent – it extends through all space, with all other matter. – Orson Pratt

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The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Ronald Reagan

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