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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."
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"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
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"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
Advertising
"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
Business
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
Leadership
"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
"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
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
Being
"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
Government
"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
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
Pessimism
"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."
Justice
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