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• I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn’t work.

  Gallagher1946–2022

  • Comedy

• Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  T. S. Eliot1888–1965New York Post (Sept 22, 1963)

• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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