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“If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.”

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William J. H. Boetcker was a renowned motivational speaker. Born in 1873 and passing away in 1962, he was known for his inspiring speeches and writings that have influenced countless individuals. more

“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel.”

World Kind Fiction Technology Mass Advertising Instant Branches Translations Imagery Science And Technology Merchandising

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .”

Hell Century Fashion Rate Affair Bars Gaps 20th Century Skulls Dungeons Inferno Buchenwald

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.”

Knows Way Ideas Car Machines Passing Passings Old Fashioned Remorseless

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Fantasy is literature for teenagers.”

Literature Fantasy Teenager

Author:Brian Aldiss

“The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.”

Thinking Firsts Life Is Cases Sorrow Lessons Smoke Life Lesson Outsiders Petty Exceptional

Author:James Russell Lowell

“There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.”

Rooms Newspapers Score Boston Seers

Book:Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels

Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels

“But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.”

Ifs Television Materials Jokes Pops Bangs

Author:Tom Hanks

“The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.”

“Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?”

Men Heart Spirit Justice Absolutes Soil Absolute Power

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The fewer the desires, the more peace.”

Desire Fewer

Author:Woodrow Wilson

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