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

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

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

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

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"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."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
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"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."

"The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control."

"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."

"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."

"The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south."

"Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land."

"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
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