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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was sellin...  
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their ...  
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily re...  
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. ...  
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.   Politics
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.   Education
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.   Politics
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral co...  
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance th...  
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that...  
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius t...  
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge ...  
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.  
Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.  
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public rela...  
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? Th...   Politics
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog ...  
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.  
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding ...  
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unsc...  
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other ...  
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the conti...  
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the s...  
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the un...  
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of a...  
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spo...  
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would rema...  
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are ...  
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our...  
When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is t...