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"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

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

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

"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."

"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."

"There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre."

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising."
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"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."

"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."

"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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