"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

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Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

Stephen Leacock

#Money Quotes #Fear Quotes #Long Quotes

“Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.”
“To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”
“One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.”
“My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.”
“I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.”

Source : Kevin Brooks (2003). “Martyn Pig”, p.231, Scholastic
“We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

Source : Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.7, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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