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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

— William Feather

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I like business because it is the essence of life. Dreams are good, poetical fancies are good, but bread must be baked today, trains must move today, bills must be collected today, payrolls met today.

Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.

I like business because it rewards deeds and not words.

I like business because it is competitive.

The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth.

Featherisms (2008)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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