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“Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”

Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984) US critic & essayist, Once Around the Sun (1951) 

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“If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager’s inability to give leadership.”

John Ralston Soul (b. 1947) Canadian writer, The Unconscious Civilization (1995) 

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“I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.”

John Wanamaker (1838-1922) US businessman, quoted in ‘How to Acquire Customers on the Web’, Harvard Business Review (Donna L. Huffman & Thomas P. Novak; 2000) 

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“I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature… that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered.”

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British politician, philosopher & writer, Common Sense (1776) 

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“The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.”

Alvin Toffler (b. 1928) US social commentator, The Third Wave (1980) 

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“One of the greatest pains to a human being is the pain of a new idea.”

Walter Bagehot (1826-77) British economist & journalist, Physics and Politics (1872) 

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“The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.”

E.F. Schumacher (1911-77) British economist & conservationist, Small Is Beautiful (1973) 

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“I never felt anyone bought anything from a teacher.”

Dan Wieden (b. 1945) US advertising executive, referring to the need for advertising to sell, New York Times (October 1995) 

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“You cannot extend the mastery of the Government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of people’s souls and thoughts.”

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US president, campaign speech (22 October 1928) 

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“It is difficult to make people happy but I know we should try harder.”

Christopher Bland (b. 1938) British media executive & chairman of BT, referring to the BBC’s policy of achieving programme balance, Management Today (July 1999) 

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