Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is. (p. 350)
Quotes to Explore
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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Donald Trump did not appear by magic.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
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I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
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All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.
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This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget to. A lot of things go off into space and never come back 'cause I just don't remember them.
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The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is. (p. 350)
