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"If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising."

"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."

"Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is."

"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."

"I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising."

"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."

"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled."
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"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."


"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."


"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."


"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."


"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."


"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"


"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument."
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