The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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