Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
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The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
