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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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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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 don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.
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If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.
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I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.
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the first ingredient of his work.. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.
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How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
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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)
