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Marshall McLuhan Quotes: The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.
         

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.


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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.



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We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.



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