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John C. Crosby

"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."

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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

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"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."

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