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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake."

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

"I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising."

"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."

"I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."
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"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."
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