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Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used. — Unknown Author
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind — Joseph Conrad
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. — Jonathan Swift
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence… — William Butler Yeats
The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. — Jean Paul Richter
Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law. — L. Ron Hubbard
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold… — Mark Twain
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper — Proverb
To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious… — Henry Ward Beecher
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in… — Anna Quindlen
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts… — George Washington
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson
He that waits upon a fortune, is never sure of a dinner. — Benjamin Franklin
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below — John Dryden
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape — Loren Eiseley
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart — Confucius
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness… — Edmund Burke
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men… — Chief Joseph
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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