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Quote by Marshall McLuhan
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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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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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan

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In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet were more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? – Emilio Estevez

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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. – J. J. Abrams

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We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if youre not constantly moving forward, then – without a doubt – youre moving backwards. – Bill Owens

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Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. – Gordon Brown

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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. – Arnold H. Glasow

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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. – Herb Cohen

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George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history. – Orestes Ferrara

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We feel and know that we are eternal. – Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

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