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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 25, 2016
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)  
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown  
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993  
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