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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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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

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communication
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Marshall McLuhan
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? – Jack Kerouac

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – Eldridge Cleaver

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America

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. – William Ralph

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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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I would rather be right than President. – Henry Clay, speech, 1850

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Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. – Peter Schuyler

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