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

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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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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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We talk a lot on Biggest Loser about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. Im always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music. – Alison Sweeney

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I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when Im living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone. – Ashley Judd

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Im happily single. – Paula Abdul

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All we ask is to be let alone. – Jefferson Davis

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