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• Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Years, Iceland, People

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• John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Player

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• If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sex, Wall, Business

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• I'll just say this: The last problem Paris Hilton has is being in a John McCain ad.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Paris, Lasts, Problem

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• He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Stupid, Media

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 4, 2007.

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• I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.

  Alex Bregman

  Baseball, Jobs, Team

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• I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  School, Acting, Stuff

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• We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

  Andrew Keen

  Moving, Mean, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.

  Dan Povenmire

  Years, Guy, Trying

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's an appearance on Lettterman or posters or ads. They need to kind of be hit more in the face and be told that there's something new out there.

  David Byrne

  People, Needs, Stuff

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 22, 2008.

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• There's a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon school with balloon friends ad a balloon principal. And one day, the balloon boy decides to take a pin to his balloon school, which is, of course, a disaster. And he's called into the balloon principal's office, and the balloon principal tells him, 'You've let me down, you've let your school down, you've let your parents down, you've let your friends down. But most importantly you've let yourself down'.

  Gabrielle Williams

  Dad, School, Boys

  Gabrielle Williams (2010). “Beatle Meets Destiny”, p.216, Marshall Cavendish

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• Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

  John James Ingalls

  Stars, Difficulty

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• The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

  Frank Herbert

  Revenge, Tables, Violence

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

  Kate Clinton

  Fonts, Administration, Size

  Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, Bywater Books

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• We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the 'New York Times' trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, People, Relaxation

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", June 14, 2005.

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• I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Thinking, Different

  "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering'". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 27, 2011.

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• Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Principles, Noise, Way

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• Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Effort, Intellectual, World

  Commonweal, Volume 58 (p. 557), 1953.

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• Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.

  Randall Jarrell

  Believe, Writing, Two

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "A Note on Poetry" (p. 50), 1980.

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• The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sports, Baseball, Writing

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

  Joe Orton

  Home, Waiting, Way

  "The Orton Diaries". Edited by John Lahr, p. 137, 1986.

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• Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Dollars, Scarcity

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.59, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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• Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

  Giordano Bruno

  Principles, Substance, Elements

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender.

  Jackson Browne

  Lying, Believe, Struggle

  "Song: "The Pretender"". 1976.

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• Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

  Glen Duncan

  Sticks, Spontaneous, Strategy

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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