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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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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, 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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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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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. – Minoru Yamasaki

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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid its also in the system, the society. – James Hillman

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Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. – Samantha Morton

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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson

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I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. – Cat Stevens

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Most mens anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. – Edward F. Halifax

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