The principles underlying propaganda are extremely simple. Find some common desire, some widespread unconscious fear or anxiety; think out some way to relate this wish or fear to the product you have to sell; then build a bridge of verbal or pictorial symbols over which your customer can pass from fact to compensatory dream, and from the dream to the illusion that your product, when purchased, will make the dream come true. They are selling hope. We no longer buy oranges, we buy vitality. We do not just buy an auto, we buy prestige. And so with all the rest. In toothpaste, for example, we buy not a mere cleanser and antiseptic, but release from the fear of being sexually repulsive. In vodka and whisky we are not buying a protoplasmic poison which in small doses, may depress the nervous system in a psychologically valuable way; we are buying friendliness and good fellowship, the warmth of Dingley Dell and the brilliance of the Mermaid Tavern. With our laxatives we buy the health of a Greek god. With the monthly best seller we acquire culture, the envy of our less literate neighbors and the respect of the sophisticated. In every case the motivation analyst has found some deep-seated wish or fear, whose energy can be used to move the customer to part with cash and so, indirectly, to turn the wheels of industry.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w... ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h... ALDOUS HUXLEY To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star... ALDOUS HUXLEY Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. ALDOUS HUXLEY A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ... ALDOUS HUXLEY People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. ALDOUS HUXLEY If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy... ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on... ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ... ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t... ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h... ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o... ALDOUS HUXLEY Death
Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing. ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla... ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva... ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v... ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ... ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea... ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.... ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences. ALDOUS HUXLEY