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QUOTATION:We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready—even eager—to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
ATTRIBUTION:Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 5 (1961).
 
 
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