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"Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it."
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"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."

"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."

"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."

"How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained."

"People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?"

"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."

"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."
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"In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species."

"I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers."

"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."

"Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it."

"The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma."

"Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?"

"I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything."

"While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising."
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