Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a persons car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesnt know the first thing about either. – Marshall McLuhan

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Education
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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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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean Im told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. – Harold Bloom

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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. – John C. Maxwell

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. – Lewis Grizzard

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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really cant fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. – Barbara Mandrell

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I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. – Sargent Shriver

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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but were being fooled, because democracy is not the election. Weve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isnt. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. Its the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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