"Advertising is the rattling of a stick..." - Quote by George Orwell
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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“Reality is inside the skull.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he afailure, and then fail all the more completely because hedrinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to theEnglish language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate becauseour thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our languagemakes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
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“Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.”
“I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they're crackers, that's why I got them. I like crackers! I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates!”
“I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.”
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“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”
“However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.”
“Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.”