Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. (p. 194)
Quotes to Explore
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Maybe, but if you look at Sunset Boulevard, it's not so far away. Even Citizen Kane is not so far away. So I think that I know it's not so far away.
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The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
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So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.
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Visual space is the space of detachment. Audile-tactile space is the space of involvement. (p. 194)
