Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a cri

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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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. – Marshall McLuhan

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Society
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrists couch. – Marshall McLuhan

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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. – Paul Gauguin

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. – Josh Billings

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well. – Elbert Hubbard

Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths. – Shelley Bovey

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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. – Ferguson Jenkins

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