Marshall McLuhan Quotes
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Marshall McLuhan
Quotes to Explore
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Edmund White
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I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.
Ramez Naam
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In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
Edith Pearlman
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If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
Maluma
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Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. … A brāhmin without this love is no longer a brāhmin. And a pariah with the love of God is no longer a pariah. Through bhakti an untouchable becomes pure and elevated.
Ramakrishna
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe
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...if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of 'corybulous', 'hypogeum', 'plangent', 'irrefragably', 'glozening', 'tellurian', 'conclamant', sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
Randall Jarrell
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Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Ai Weiwei
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If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.
Lewis Black
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You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.
Lefty Grove
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My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.
Betsy Hodges
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When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.
Douglas Booth
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What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.
George F. R. Ellis
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
Lamar Alexander
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I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.
Bob Davids
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. White
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In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Marshall McLuhan
