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Printing Press Quotes

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. Kurt Vonnegut
T. E. Lawrence quote: "The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the..."
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander. T. E. Lawrence
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity. Pablo Neruda
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest. Thomas Merton
Marshall McLuhan quote: "The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of..."
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Marshall McLuhan
Fred W. Friendly quote: "TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest..."
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. Fred W. Friendly
Wendell Phillips quote: "What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the..."
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. Wendell Phillips
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. John Masefield
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. Gary Locke
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. Nate Silver
Nate Silver quote: "Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press."
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. Nate Silver
T. E. Lawrence quote: "The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of..."
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. T. E. Lawrence
E. F. Schumacher quote: "The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the..."
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. E. F. Schumacher
Dudley Nichols quote: "Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion. Dudley Nichols
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was. Bruce Jackson

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