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Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere — the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

— Bruce Fairchild Barton The Man Nobody Knows (1924)

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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.

The Man Nobody Knows (1924)

A man may be down, but he is never out.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)

The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing. It is named The Dead. There are two kinds of people in the world. There are two seas in Palestine.

There are two seas in Palestine.

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