Quote by Marshall McLuhan
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. - Ma

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan

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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. – Marshall McLuhan

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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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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. – Charles Luckman

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. – Stephen Vincent Benet

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America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. – John Burton Brimer

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