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I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
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In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.
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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
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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.
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When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.
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If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.
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Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
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Work does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
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As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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Invention is the mother of necessities.
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There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
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The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
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