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«Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.»
Author: David Frost
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Television
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entertained, invention, living room, permits, television
«One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.»
«Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.»
«So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism»
«Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.»
«The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.»
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, agencies, appropriate, collaborator, collaborators, grounds, lackey, lackeys, observing, permits, reasoned, reasoning, revealing, subtle, superiority
«RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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devices, enabling, expedition, expeditions, get away, hold off, permits, railroad, railroads, transit
«So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough; there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.»
«Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Television
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a million times, entertainment, medium, millions, permits, radio
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