Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Affluence creates poverty. - Marshall McLuhan

Affluence creates poverty. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan

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War
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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Poverty
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughan

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. – English Proverb

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Poverty

Poverty is the step-mother of genius. – Josh Billings

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein

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Its a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your moneys worth. – George M. Humphrey

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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman wholl give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means youre in the wrong house, thats what it means. – Henny Youngman

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Im from the Madeleine LEngle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows theres a creator whos behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. – Tom Shadyac

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