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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads o

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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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan

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Shopping
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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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Art
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. – Marshall McLuhan

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Experience
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. – Naomi Wolf

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Society

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society – the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and thats what this is. – Alice Cooper

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Society

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. – Carl Sandburg, New York Post, 9 September 1960

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Society

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. – Arthur Brisbane

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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. – Linus Pauling

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Ruin and recovery are both from within. – Epictetus

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

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