When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
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HUEY NEWTON Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 I compare the troubles which we ha... JOHN NEWTON Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms an... JOHN NEWTON Feast of Matthias the Apostle God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly co... JOHN NEWTON I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the br... JOHN NEWTON Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp... JOHN NEWTON Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ... JOHN NEWTON Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 I am not what I ought t... JOHN NEWTON Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 If ever I reach heaven ... JOHN NEWTON "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he... JOHN NEWTON The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kind... JOHN NEWTON The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the proper... ISAAC NEWTON The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, i... ISAAC NEWTON 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion ... ISAAC NEWTON To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with ... ISAAC NEWTON Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. HELMUT NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. HOWARD NEWTON Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ISAAC NEWTON I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradual... ISAAC NEWTON Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon th... JOHN NEWTON I thought Jeremy had a steady game. For having 16 points, it didn't really seem like he had that man... DAVE NEWTON Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reas... ISAAC NEWTON I think those of us who know the university feel pretty good about it. But I think that it's not kno... JOHN NEWTON