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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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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan

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Propaganda
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age
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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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Technology
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As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, its not good to limit the number of voices. – Michael Moore

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Society

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

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Society

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. – Peter Medawar

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Society

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. – Joe Biden

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Society

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Im in the studio 24 hours a day. Its true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. – Puff Daddy

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Success

Power doesnt have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your childrens lives. – Jill Scott

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Home

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. – Victoria Abril

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Morning

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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