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Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. -- William Bernbach
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. -- Jef I. Richards
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. -- Roy H. Williams
The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme. -- Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising. -- Josh Kilmer-Purcell
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. -- Christy Turlington
In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. -- Storm Jameson
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. -- Richard Roeper
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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