"Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising."

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Andrew Hacker

#Wise Quotes #Witty Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.”
“I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.”
“Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
“Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.”
“I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong”
“I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.”
“If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.”

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