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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But the censorship itself admits that it is not an end in itself, that it is not a good in and of itself, that it is therefore based on the principle that “the end sanctifies the means.” But an end that needs unholy means is not a holy end.81 Besides, Marx argues, the maxim always works both ways as a justification: if the censorship can plead the goodness of its ends as justification for what it does, then so can the (antigovernmental) press.
Hal Draper
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker
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We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.
Ben Ehrenreich
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I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.
Calvin Klein
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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
