"Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."

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Source : Northrop Frye (1976). “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance”, p.167, Harvard University Press

Northrop Frye

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“I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.”

Source : "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.
“Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.”
“You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.”
“Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.”

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“When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.”
“The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.”
“Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.”

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“The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.”

Source : Lorenz Oken (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.264

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