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"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less."
General Eric Shinseki, retired COS, US Army.

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..."
Lawrence Clark Powell

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau

"A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer."
Al Reis and Laura Reis

"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."
Doug Horton

"The best things in life aren't things."
Art Buchwald

"Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."
William Randolph Hearst

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
Maimonides

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
John W. Gardner

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
Doris Lessing

"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status."
Ralph S. Butler

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
Deepak Chopra

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
E.L. Doctorow

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
Ursula K. le Guin

"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason."
Richard C. Trench

"The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you."
C.E.M. Joad

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."
John D. Rockefeller

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
James Thurber

"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."
Jef I. Richards

"Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
Northrop Frye

"Nothing will work unless you do."
Maya Angelou

"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
Adam Osborne

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