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  • They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
  • Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Augustus William Hare Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • George Eliot Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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