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Benjamin Spock
“A word about TV: If a television is on, an infant will stare at it. This is not a sign of advanced development. TV entertains at a cost. Young children easily become dependent on the TV for stimulation and lose some of their natural drive to explore. A child with a plastic cup and spoon, a few wooden blocks, and a board book can think up fifty creative ways to use those objects; a child in front of a TV can only do one thing.”
Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care

Margaret Drabble
“Mid-life crises, in Fran’s ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.”
Margaret Drabble, The Dark Flood Rises

Benjamin Spock
“Another subtle but worrisome effect television has on its viewers is its tendency to promote passivity and a lack of creativity. Watching television requires little mental activity on the viewer’s part. You simply sit and let the images flow by. Some research suggests that this sort of nonparticipatory viewing fosters a short attention span, making it hard for children to apply themselves in school. Obesity”
Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

Ian Fleming
“When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference”
Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Ko Un
“I stood facing the horizon over the East Sea.
What had become of the seventeen hundred
koan-riddles?
The sound of waves
the sound of waves.
Playing with you I threw them away.”
Ko Un

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