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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. – David Ogilvy

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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. – David Ogilvy

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Good copy cant be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. Youve got to believe in the product. – David Ogilvy

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good
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Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. – David Ogilvy

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw

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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. – Tony Robbins

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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I think newspapers shouldnt try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. – Dave Eggers

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. – Joichi Ito

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