"When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again."

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Stephen Baxter

“Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.”
“What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.”

Source : "The Power of the Media, Part II". "The Open Mind", archive.org. 1990.
“The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.”
“Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.”

Source : Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.108, Routledge
“Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.”
“New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.”
“I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.”
“You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.”

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