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John Kenneth Galbraith
: Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.
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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
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Rollo May :
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
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Alfred Hitchcock :
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Ben Hecht :
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Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Robert Banks :
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I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
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Many people tell me that my poetry is awful. And, for the life of me, I can’t decide if they are right, or just stupid.
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Walter M (Jr ) Miller :
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We are being protected from hysteria. Isn't that what they call it? Maniacs! The world's been in a habitual state of crisis for fifty years. Fifty? What am I saying? It's been in a habitual state of crisis since the beginning — but for half a century now, almost unbearable. And why, for the love of God? What is the fundamental irritant, the essence of the tension? Political philosophies? Economics? Population pressure? Disparity of culture and creed? Ask a dozen experts, get a dozen answers. Now Lucifer again. Is the species congenitally insane, Brother? ~ Ch 24
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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