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“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”

People Wanted Economy Century Needed Advertising Nineteenth Century

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.”

Dream Century Needed Paint Outcomes Vegetables Nineteenth Century

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.”

Men Needs Children Helping Law Century Needed 21st Century Workplace 20th Century

Author:Warren Farrell

“The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.”

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.”

Law Hours Numbers Century Broken Needed Flight Zone 21st Century Crossings Aircraft Electronics Time Zones

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.”

Home Found Clear Century Needed Bills Visuals Digital Gates Twentieth Century Plausible Picture Frames

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths