#printing press

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

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. ↗

— Nate Silver

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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

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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

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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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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

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