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We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
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Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is…
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Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological…
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be…
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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
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Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is…
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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate…
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My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in…
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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself…
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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the…
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical…
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
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