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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

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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Art at its most significant is 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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It is better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington

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