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"A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis." – Umberto Eco, in "Can Television Teach?" in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12
"When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
– John Adams Letter to Thomas Jefferson (15 July 1817) "War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not…
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