Marshall McLuhan Quotes
We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17)
Quotes to Explore
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'
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I guess I crave stability.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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A council to a magistrate, who is himself responsible for what he does, are generally nothing better than a clog upon his good intentions, are often the instruments and accomplices of his bad and are almost always a cloak to his faults.
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A drunkard cannot plead his case.
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Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
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We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17)
