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

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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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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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. – Marshall McLuhan

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Art
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Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesnt interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what theyve worked hard to have. – Mike Huckabee

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alone

Its often just enough to be with someone. I dont need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. Youre not alone. – Marilyn Monroe

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alone

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. – Jerry Saltz

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alone

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves. – Robert Zemeckis

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alone

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If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. – Daniel Marsh, 1950

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Television

Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written. – Bjorn Ulvaeus

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amazing

The guilty think all talk is of themselves. – Chaucer

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Guilt

Im glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere. – Dane Cook

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