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Births

• 1944 - Mary Robinson
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• Advertising didn’t mix sex up with our daily lives. The great Marketeer in the sky did that.

  Barry Brooks

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• The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

  William Dean Howells

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

  James Randolph Adams

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• Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is used.

  James Walter Thompson

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• Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation.

  S. I. Hayakawa

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• Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

  Phillip Adams

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• The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

  David Ogilvy

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• If you can afford to advertise, you don’t need to.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

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• Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

  Fran Lebowitz

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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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• Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

  David Ogilvy

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• Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

  Donald Rumsfeld

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• Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies – you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

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• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

  Michael Schudson

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• I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

  David Ogilvy

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• The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

  Glenn Frank

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