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Marshall McLuhan Quotes: When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
         

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.


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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'



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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.



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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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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.



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The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.



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



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