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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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