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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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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
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