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Tutoring follows the lucrative philosophy of advertising: if you can manufacture a need, people with disposable resources will find ways to fill it.


Eliot Schrefer

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ANDY KATZ ... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill ...
JOJO MOYES Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER advertisers will need to find new ways to break through the clutter.
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PETER DELORENZO The reporting staff of the paper will fill the monthly page. We feel people will want to save the se...
JOY REDDING If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify...
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LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL They'll need a really strong advertiser base. There are people who will pay [a monthly fee] not to b...
BROWNLEE THOMAS You can put all the scrutiny in there you want--people will still find a way around it. We need ever...
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CHARLES IVES If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate...
JERRY MANDER If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ...
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DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ...
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GEORGE ELIOT Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, wh...
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while w...
GEORGE ELIOT For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a wil...
GEORGE ELIOT There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and cli...
GEORGE ELIOT The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so i...
GEORGE ELIOT Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
GEORGE ELIOT But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not...
GEORGE ELIOT The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a re...
GEORGE ELIOT To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
GEORGE ELIOT We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, a...
EDEN ELIOT Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is bette...
GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any...
GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT