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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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
Samuel L. Jackson
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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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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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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The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.
Edward Snowden
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Ai Weiwei