Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The uniformity and repeatability of print created the 'political arithmetic' of the seventeenth century and the 'hedonistic calculus' of the eighteenth. (p. 237)

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

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• The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.

  

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• Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

  

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

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• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
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• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

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• I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
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• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  

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• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

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• All are my friends. I have no enemies.

  

  Mahavira
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• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
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• I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
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• I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

  

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• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

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• I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

  

  Marissa Mayer
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• If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

  

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• The uniformity and repeatability of print created the 'political arithmetic' of the seventeenth century and the 'hedonistic calculus' of the eighteenth. (p. 237)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Political