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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Conquer
Thing
Advertising
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Obvious
Way
Flow
Constant
Debasement
Pretty
Fraudulent
Human
Trivial
Humans
Caused

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