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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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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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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. – 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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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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

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Names

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

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Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – Thank God Its Friday. They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. – Richard Nelson Bolles

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