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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

—Sinclair Lewis

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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

—Laurence J. Peter

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

—Samuel Johnson

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

—Henry Ford

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

—H. L. Mencken

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

—Winston Churchill

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

—Pablo Picasso

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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

—William Ralph Inge

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

—Steven Weinberg

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I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.

—Lauren Oliver in Before I Fall

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My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.

—Warsan Shire

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

—Carl Sagan

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You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

—Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

—Anne Frank

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

—John Dewey

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