Stuart Chase Quotes

#1. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

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#2. Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

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#3. Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

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#4. For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

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#5. Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

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#6. The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services ... America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

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#7. The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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#8. Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

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#9. I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

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#10. The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

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#11. The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

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#12. We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

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#13. Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

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#14. Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

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#15. Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

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#16. Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

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