Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
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And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
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When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
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Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.
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On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.
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The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
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We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
