Democracy at its Ugliest

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’e scraping the top of the barrel. – Gore Vidal

Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what the people want. – Clive Barnes

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. – Fred Allen

Television is democracy at its ugliest. – Paddy Chayefsky

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. – Rita Mae Brown

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. – H.L. Mencken

Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell

So little time, so little to do. – Oscar Levant

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