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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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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"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."

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

"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."

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

"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
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