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Advertising is a young profession but a force as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

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Advertising is conceived in America as intended to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

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Advertising is like the church in that it speaks to a thousand in order to influence one.

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Supply-side economics is different from classical liberal economics (despite its respect for hume, swift, smith, hamilton). Rather than arguing that taxation is the immoral seizure of one's property, as they do, it argues instead that the main impetus for tax cuts is an alleged collective benefit (i.e. Jobs).