"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold."
-James Randolph Adams
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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.“
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