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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to

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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. – Marshall McLuhan

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Politics
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Marshall McLuhan
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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, 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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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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Art
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There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. – Anne Wilson Schaef

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Technology

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. – Scott Cook

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Technology

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasnt aware of it yet. – Bruce Sterling

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Technology

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world. – Al-Waleed bin Talal

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Technology

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Pray to understand what man has forgotten. – American Indian Proverb

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Proverbial Wisdom

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because hed shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night. – Mariel Hemingway

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With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. – Mike Myers

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alone

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. – Edison Haines

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