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Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
Advertising
Stuart Chase

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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Self-image
E. M. Cioran

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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Fashion
Irvin S. Cobb

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I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Husbands
Joan Collins

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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Fiction
Robert Coover

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
Slavery
William Cowper

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
Enthusiasm
William Cowper

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
President
Clarence Darrow

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A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
Puns
John Dennis

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Memory
Joan Didion

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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
Dance and Dancing
Isadora Duncan

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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Competition
Leo Durocher

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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
Enlightenment
Wayne Dyer

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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Language
George Eliot

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
Achievement
Havelock Ellis

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Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Possibilities
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Listening
Epictetus

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If youth but knew; if age but could.
Youth
Henri Estienne

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If youth knew; if age could.
Age and Aging
Henri Estienne

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
Memory
Enrico Fermi

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Love
Emmet Fox

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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Wish and Wishing
Benjamin Franklin

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Optimism
Robert Frost

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I could prove God statistically.
Statistics
George Gallup

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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Nuclear Age
Charles De Gaulle

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun