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    "However much we would like advertising to be a science - because life would be simpler that way - the fact is that it is not. It is a subtle, ever-changing art, defying formularization, flowering on freshness and withering on imitation; where what was effective one day, for that very reason, will not be effective the next, because it has lost the maximum impact of originality."

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    "However much we would like advertising to be a science - because life would be simpler that way - the fact is that it is not. It is a subtle, ever-changing art, defying formularization, flowering on freshness and withering on imitation; where what was effective one day, for that very reason, will not be effective the next, because it has lost the maximum impact of originality."

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    Bill Bernbach Said... (DDB, 1989)

    Bill Bernbach

    Bill Bernbach, collected in "Bill Bernbach Said..." (DDB Needham Worldwide, 1989)

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