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"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."

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

"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."

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

"The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."

"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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