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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.

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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

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The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

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We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: April 26th, 1898

Died: February 19th, 1972

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