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He was in fact an adman: persuading, recruiting followers, finding the right words to arouse interest and create desires, in short exemplifying all the principles of modern salesmanship.

— Bruce Fairchild Barton Misattributed

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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.

There are two seas in Palestine.

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