Quote by Marshall McLuhan
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

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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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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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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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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. – Mary Daly

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

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Ive realized that Im more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. Its about saying that you deserve to be healthy. – Valerie Bertinelli

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. – John Arbuthnot

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