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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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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan

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

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Travel
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We are so reliant on power and technology for everything. – Billy Burke

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The only thing that Id rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. – Scott McNealy

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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. – Larry Wall

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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology. – Lars von Trier

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka

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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them dont even get printed. – Bob Uecker

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