Marshall McLuhan Quotes

As the totem pole is tied to the lineality of the missionaries' Bible, so the igloo was made possible by the primus stove.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
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• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

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• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
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• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

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• Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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• For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.

  

  Imelda May
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• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• 'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• Di pia facta vident.

  

  Ovid

• That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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  • Long
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• Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
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• Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • People
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• Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

  

  James Fenton
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• The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Book

• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Enemy
  • Bible
  • Christianity

• As the totem pole is tied to the lineality of the missionaries' Bible, so the igloo was made possible by the primus stove.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Bible