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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."

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

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."

"Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread."

"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."

"In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal."

"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."

"Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible."

"Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
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