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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."

"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."

"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."

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

"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."

"A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter."

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

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