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Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

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God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

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God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

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Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

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All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

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Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

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I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...

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My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech

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Colley CibberThe Plays of Colley Cibber

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a f...

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But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly...

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of t...

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I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad som...

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The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such ...

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I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are ...

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In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of al...

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Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the...

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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food...

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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succ...

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Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most peop...

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I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other ...

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At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabri...

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Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the scre...

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Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first th...

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They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is anti...

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Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting togeth...

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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the end...

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If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosop...

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Noël CowardA Talent To Amuse: A Biography Of Noël Coward

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some G...

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It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that se...

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It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vie...

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What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: l...

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It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people...

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Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

Is there a notion of hope (and of our responsibility to the future) that could be shared by believer...

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If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment tow...

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed li...

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I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. ...

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Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and t...

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What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined ...

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Anna QuindlenImagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn i...

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Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

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God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

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God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

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Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

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All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

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Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

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Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

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God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

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God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

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Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

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All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

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Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

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Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

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God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

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God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

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Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

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All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

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Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

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Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

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God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

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God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

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Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

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All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

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Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

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Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

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God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

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God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

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