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The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model—whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

— Bruce Fairchild Barton Fables of Abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America (1994)

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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.

The Man Nobody Knows (1924)

A man may be down, but he is never out.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)

The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing. It is named The Dead. There are two kinds of people in the world. There are two seas in Palestine.

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