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- What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
- Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
- Rita Rudner
- My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), in a Compuserve chat
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
- David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
- Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)
- The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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