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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it a

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Everyone lives by selling something. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they dont have it in your size.
If you like it and it fits, you cant afford it.
If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it.
If the shoe fits, its ugly. – Proverb

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The sale begins when the customer says yes. – Harvey Mackay

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