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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby
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The person sins, then blames Satan for it.

Afghan Proverb
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. -Raymond Chandler
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Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker
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Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. -James Randolph Adams
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Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

William Bernbach
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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Jef I. Richards
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. -Alfred Korzybski
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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.

The Talmud
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Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino
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When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly. -John O'toole
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

David M. Ogilvy
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Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.

Michael Schudson
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid). -Robert A. Heinlein
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That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Jerry Della Femina
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Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

Morris Hite
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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. -Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Leo Bogart
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The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that the elements of the design mean when they are processed by the viewer.

Jeanniey Mullen
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Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. -Robert W. Sarnoff
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Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals.

Sir John Vanbrugh
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The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

Morris Hite
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. -William Bernbach
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In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Richard John Neuhaus
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas
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Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread. -Jef I. Richards
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

David Riesman
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I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.

Bill Barnes
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If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. -Michael Schudson
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