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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should."
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"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
Government
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
Poetry
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
Job
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
Politics
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
Boys
"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
Food
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
Ambition
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
Sacrifice
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
Friendship
"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
Business
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