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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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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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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – Marshall McLuhan

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My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. Its their work that Im supporting. So its not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. – George Soros

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Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship. – Thomas F. Eagleton

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The trouble is its very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. – Emma Thompson

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. – Henry David Thoreau

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