Self Pity can be Raised to Infinity

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity – an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. – Bruce Barton.

The mathematics of self-pity can be raised to infinitiy. –Cornelius Ryan

The value of anything is not what you get paid for it, nor what it cost to produce, but what you can get for it at an auction. – william Lyon Phelps

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. – Sinclair Lewis

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. – Marshall McLuhan

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Leacock

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. – P.L. Stewart

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Where Wise Men Fear to Trade

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No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade. – Peter Drucker

Interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. – Marshall McLuhan

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, beward of danger – but recognize the opportunity. – Richard M. Nixon

Nachman’s Rule: when it comes to foreign food the less authentic the better. – Gerald Nachman

Mass transport is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

The dollar has become like a hydrant at an international convention for dogs. – Eliot Janeway