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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Politic

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Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. – Stuart Chase

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure. – Douglas Adams

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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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