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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old."

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

"A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages."

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."
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