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“We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.”

Ifs May Enough Certain Powerful Air Influence Effects Serious Goes On Presses Threat Radio Jew Advertising Instance Firm Features Remove Mutual Threatened Disturbed Motion Pictures

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.”

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Author:Charles Kingsley

“There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.”

May Important Done Problem Economic Fields Serious Harm Instance Employment Superstitions Inflation Magnitude

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.”

May Made Country Political Strong Social Perfect Rights Progress Economic Serious Areas Enormous Cards Instance Reports Implementation Lag Political Rights Report Cards

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Humans Conditions Serious Scientist Fundamentals Instance Human Condition

Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!”

Firsts Serious Advertising Instance Email Spam Serious Work

Author:Vinton Cerf

“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.”

Humans Form Joy Bits Boys Struggle Crazy Serious Ocean Majors Rivers Strategy Brave Memoir Storytelling Instance Prose

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch