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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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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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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesnt know the first thing about either. – Marshall McLuhan

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Education
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan

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I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level. – Ian Jackson

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Im equally guilty of using technology – I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think theres something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think were closer when in fact were not seeing each other, were not connecting. – Jason Reitman

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I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays… maybe I could. – Jordin Sparks

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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. – Elon Musk

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We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. – George Allen

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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. – Richard Morris

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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. – Roy Hattersley

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I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February. – Gary Cole (b.1956)

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