History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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