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Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

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
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Marshall MacLuhan
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Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
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All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
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Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
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Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.
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the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
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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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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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Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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