The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty …

Ray Bradbury
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. ✨ Fahrenheit 451. Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. ✨ Fahrenheit 451. Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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