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

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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Shopping
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan

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War
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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. Theres always more than you can cope with. – Marshall McLuhan

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Information
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. – Horace

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alone

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze. – Andre Rieu

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alone

I once had a boyfriend who couldnt write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something. – Susan Orlean

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alone

Glasgows not a media center. When youre there, when youre hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. – Alex Kapranos

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alone

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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. Its totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. – J. K. Rowling

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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. – Norman Spinrad

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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of thats the permanent campaign, part of thats a word Ive been using more frequently, tribal. Our politics has become tribal: Its us versus them. – Evan Bayh

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