Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
quote by Raymond Chandler
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The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
quote by Leo Burnett
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If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
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In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
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It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
quote by Stephen Leacock
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.
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I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
quote by George J. Mitchell
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Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
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Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
quote by Fred Allen
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I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.
Victoria Finlay in A Secret History
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I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
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After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
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