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Letter "P" » printing
«Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.»
«We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...»
«We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.»
«What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.»
«The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Grand Canyon,
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«The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which»
«Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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«The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion»