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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant

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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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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The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the worlds eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. – Charles de Lint

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I never called my work an art. Its part of show business, the business of building entertainment. – Walt Disney

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. – Arthur Koestler

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