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"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."
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