Marshall McLuhan Quotes
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Waking up every morning with a company is a lot of pressure. But when you're aware of what other people are waking up with, it's a whole lot easier.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
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You can't just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
