"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned."

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J. B. Priestley

#Age Quotes #Advertising Quotes #Disillusioned Quotes

“I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.”
“He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.”

Source : The Washington Post, October 21, 1924.
“The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying â€œI bet we can do this.â€ Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Letâ€™s squander some on Mars. Letâ€™s go out and play.”
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“I am an instigator of the national energies.”

Source : "For My Legionaries" by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, York, SC: Liberty Bell Publications, 2003.
“I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.”
“He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.”
“You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!”

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