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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and ind

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan

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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body. – Warren Buffett

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. – Ayn Rand

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This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. Its not politically viable its not morally right its just not going to happen. – Michael Bloomberg

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If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. – Oliver Herford

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. – H. G. Wells

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul. – Vera Farmiga

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I mean, I think were put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I dont think theres anything you can do this way or that way to change anything. – Waylon Jennings

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