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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
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Sociologist
University Teacher
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Edmonton
Alberta
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You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.
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I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.
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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
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What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
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The medium is the message because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
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The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
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The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
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My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
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Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
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Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
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