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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

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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Society
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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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Art
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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I did not fully understand the dread term “terminal illness” until I saw Heathrow for myself. – Dennis Potter, 1978

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Travel

Its a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and well get three or four thousand fans come down. Theyll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team. – Claudio Reyna

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Travel

When the plane is delayed, its not the fault of the girl at the desk. Im resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric. – Tom Conti

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Travel

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar. – Alexander Ludwig

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Travel

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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Lets kiss afresh, as when we first begun. – Robert Herrick

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Love :: Kisses

Mammalia, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce

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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. – William H. Seward

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Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because its the only way they can get anything really finished. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Change