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Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. – 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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Art
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan

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There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. – Miroslav Vitous

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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people. – Cherrie Moraga

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communication

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. – James Madison

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I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in 86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them. – Jane Goodall

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