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John Shirley

"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

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