CULTURE

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“To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is worrisome to the flesh.” – Solomon – Eccl. 12:12 –The HOLY SCRIPTURES

People will pay more to be entertained than to be educated. – Johnny Carson

It’s not just that families have less time with their kids, we just spend more time doing battle with our own culture. – Ellen Goodman

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. – John Ruskin

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instructions. – Annie Sullivan

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology – Alastair Cooke

The principal contributor of loneliness in this country is television.  What really happens is the family “gets together” alone. – Ashley Montagu

‘They’ insisted that our schools must boot God out and rely on ‘Junior’s’ intelligence.  So we graduated a generation of juniors with refined intellects and undisciplined emotions—so school age suicides soared 92% in the last two years!–Paul Harvey                      

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

“In Beverly Hills they don’t throw garbage away.   They make it into television shows.”  – Woody Allen – ANNIE HALL - Woody Allen (Screenplay)

It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass

“Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer a world where people consume without the tedium of labor.  Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due…and we wonder why we’re a debtor nation!” – Molly Haskell – CONSUMING DESIRES

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mohandas Gandhi

“This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.” – Lee Richardson on Peter Finch (Howard Beale) – NETWORK – Paddy Cheyefsky (Screenplay)

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett

I’m extremely concerned Miley Cyrus thinks it’s cool to be naked and licking sledgehammers in her videos.  You will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it’s the music business or yourself doing the pimping. – Sinead O’Connor (her website)

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition led to the rise of gang problems we have. – Drew Carey

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Our filter for everything – speech, entertainment & conduct. – “Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well spoken of, whatever virtue there is and whatever praiseworthy thing there is, continue considering these things.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 4:8 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. – Neil Simon

As long as they look good, they can interior decorate their music.  They don’t have to play anything, just build an illusion that they are creative. – Joni Mitchell on modern music               

By and large, language is a tool for concealing truth. – George Carlin

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. – Benjamin Disraeli

On stage I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me.   Don’t talk skin to me.  – Mahalia Jackson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mohandas Gandhi

The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us. – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. – Helen Keller

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. – Frederick Douglass

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln

I think there is a world market for about FIVE computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943

Hollywood is a place where they will pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. – Marilyn Monroe

Honesty, for the most part, is less profitable than dishonesty. – Plato

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford

What’s done to children they will do to society. – Dr. Karl Meninger

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Whenever they burn books, they will also in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley

Hollywood is where if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it. – Rex Reed

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.

We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet anew neighbor.  We are cleaning up the air, but polluted the soul.  We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.  We write more, but learn less.  We plan more, but accomplish less.  We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin

Losing my virginity was a career move. – Madonna

Some say baseball is our national sport.  Not me.  It’s gossip. – Erma Bombeck

 ‘They’ told us that, if we’d just be more generous with poor folks, there’d be no motive for stealing anymore.  So we gave everyone a guaranteed income—and robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft are running 15% ahead of a year ago. –Paul Harvey                                               

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. – Warren Buffett.

“Although today there are many trial marriages, there is no such thing as a trial child.” – Gary Wills, quoted by Gail Sheehy, PASSAGES           

As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world, and then get my own apartment. – from Jay Leno

Discipline is learned through the seat of the pants—that’s what buns are for.  Many parents train their dogs more than their kids. – Paul Harvey

Just remember, I know a whole lot more about being young than you know about being old. – A father to his teenage son

The cure for boredom is curiosity—there is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with their heart. – Helen Keller

In every culture with a written history, there has always been hope for the future, spurred on by the preservation of family and the eternal search for God. – Gary Pulliam

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time. – Marilyn Monroe

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We in the U.S. are becoming a nation of spectators.  Art Linkletter

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. – P.J. O’Rourke

When atheists claim to be “offended” by the mere existence of silent prayer being allowed in the classroom, then all prayer is summarily censored in all schools, whether any atheists are present or not.  These offended parties are never told to be more tolerant or to develop respect for the opinions of others.  Any person of faith is routinely portrayed as old-fashioned or anti-intellectual.  This is a sure sign of the collapsing of our culture. – Gary Pulliam

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. – Mae West

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

Don’t confuse fame with success.  Madonna is one—Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck    

Fear, not money, drives this industry.  There is too much failure.  85% of all movies do not recoup their production costs. – Karl Iglesia (I think)

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson        

I’ve learned that money doesn’t buy class. – Andy Rooney                     

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to ponder and reflect. – Mark Twain                                                   

There is no king that has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had aking among his. – Helen Keller

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorant in the community. – Oscar Wilde

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. – Jerry M. Wright

I don’t believe in God, but I’m very interested in her. – Arthur C. Clarke

One of the greater mischiefs that confront us today is the growing DEBASEMENT of the LANGUAGE, on the one hand vulgarized, and civilization on the other, corrupted, with a particular odious academic jargon.  This is dangerous.  A civilization which loses power over its own language has lost its power over the instrument by which it thinks.  Without some power there is neither greatness nor accuracy of thought. – Henry Boston

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“Even toddlers can start learning self-control. If a child cries and cries for a piece of candy at the grocery store and you give it to her, you have just taught her that crying is an effective way to get what she wants.  The next time she wants something, she will cry and whine because that worked last time.” – Dr. Jean M. Twenge – GENERATION ME

LOVE STORY’S venality and infantilism makes us reach for a barf bag instead of a Kleenex. – Judith Crist

When high-profile celebrities make political statements at award shows or in public in front of millions of viewers, they contribute to the confusion, chaos, divisiveness and, yes, even anarchy that inevitably follows. – Gary Pulliam

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. – Erica Jong

‘They’ told us that, if we’d relax, take our clothes off, and not get all uptight about it, that there would be no more sex crimes.  So we let it all hang out—and the incidence of rape increased 10% in one year. – Paul Harvey

We are only young once.  That’s all society can stand. – Bob Bowen           

Instead of building fancy shrines, why don’t these wealthy evangelists build temporary shelters for the homeless and job training centers for the unemployed? – Gary Pulliam

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are. – Anais Nin

How times have changed!  A few generations ago songs were about love and romance. Songs are now about sex and violence.  And we wonder why modern relationships suffer? – Gary Pulliam

When you get a certain age, a juicy lawsuit is the only thing that gets you up in the morning. – Gore Vidal

Every country gets the circus it deserves.  Spain gets bullfights.  Italy gets the Catholic Church.  Americas gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong