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- As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit…
- Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society.…
- Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for…
- Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
- The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is…
- Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on…
- Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging seek…
- Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster