“It was an appeal to reason, and they’re always dangerous. You can’t trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.”

Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 103)

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American science fiction writer and editor 1919–2013

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