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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Opinions
Marshall Mcluhan

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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Books - Reading
Marshall Mcluhan

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Arts and Artists
Marshall Mcluhan

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Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Advertising
Marshall Mcluhan

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Obscurity
Marshall Mcluhan

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Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Babies
Marshall Mcluhan

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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Taste
Marshall Mcluhan

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Critics and Criticism
Marshall Mcluhan

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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Candor
Marshall Mcluhan

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Jokes are grievances.
Jokes and Jokers
Marshall Mcluhan

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Money is a poor man's credit card.
Debt
Marshall Mcluhan

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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Media
Marshall Mcluhan

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Mental Illness
Marshall Mcluhan

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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
Automobiles
Marshall Mcluhan

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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Automobiles
Marshall Mcluhan

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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Conformity
Marshall Mcluhan

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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Information
Marshall Mcluhan

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Names
Marshall Mcluhan

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The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Media
Marshall Mcluhan

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The real news is bad news.
Journalism and Journalists
Marshall Mcluhan

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Work
Marshall Mcluhan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun