"According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health."

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Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#Ignorance Quotes #Drug Quotes #Important Quotes

“Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.”
“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”

Source : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage
“Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.”
“I think as much as the city is changing us, our experience inside the city also changes. I think, a city like Cairo - and it's interesting because yesterday, a friend of mine told me the same this thing about New York - is a city that you can't control. It's very bold and very aggressive, and it will constantly resist any attempt at control. But even though you can't control it, you can find your path within the city. You can come to a better understanding of your relationship with it.”
“People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.”
“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”
“Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.”
“Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.”

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