"There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity."

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Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.170, Broadview Press

Randal Marlin

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“Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
“But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.”

Source : Richard Peck (2006). “Here lies the librarian”
“Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.”
“The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.”

Source : Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.
“When I started thinking about plans to avenge [my father], I realized I was only going to become someone worse than him, someone worse than the person I had so often criticized. I was going against my own principles. And yes, people tell me that it was a tremendous life decision in the span of 10 minutes but I just say, what else was there to think of?”
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
“Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.”

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