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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
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We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
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Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.
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Affluence creates poverty.
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I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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Electronic man has no physical body.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
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Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the Tower of Babel by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr
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The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
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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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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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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
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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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The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
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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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