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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."

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

"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."

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

"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."

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

"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."

"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."

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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
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