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"I think we could solve our problems more easily through strength of character; but that's always been a commodity in extremely short supply."
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How to persuade new recruits? Try showing them what they would look like as they rose through the ranks.
Note that this description also includes modifying the facial image to include predicted aging.
Compare this to the kinetiscope appliance, an animated 'fashion-plate' from H.G. Wells' 1899 classic When the Sleeper Wakes.
The phrase 'fashion-plate' was a photographic plate or other illustration showing clothing; the phrase was later used to describe a person who dressed ostentatiously - like someone in a picture in a magazine.
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