Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles...

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles...

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods,...

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods,...

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen...

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen...

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know...

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that...

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that...

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the...

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the...

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours...

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours...

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one...

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one...

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but...

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but...

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.