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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.  
Between religion's "this is" and poetry's "but suppose this is," there...  
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual i...  
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disgu...  
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the lim...  
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was alread...  
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to an...  
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit...  
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the ser...