Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
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When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.
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The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.
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The taxpayers deserve accountability.
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Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.
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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
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I'm not really worried about writer's block.
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Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
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Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
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Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
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As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
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There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
