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"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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