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All Quotes Collection
"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."
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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."
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"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."
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"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well."
25
"I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me."
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"The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us."
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"Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single."
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"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."
25
"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
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"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
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"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated."
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"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
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"Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide."
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"The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line."
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"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks."
Art,
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"Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable."
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"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."
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"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
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