Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (p. 200)
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.
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You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
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I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.
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The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
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Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
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Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (p. 200)
