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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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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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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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