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“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.”
William Bernbach
“If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.”
William Morris
“Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.”
Walter Gropius
“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.”
Henry Miller
“A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.”
Charles Abrams
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else”
Katharine Graham
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.”
Jeremy S. Anderson
“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
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