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Marshall McLuhan Quotes: We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.
         

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.


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We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.
         



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