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Quote by Bill Cosby
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise

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

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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby

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Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. – John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

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We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready — even eager — to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. – Samuel Johnson

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