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Quote by Marshall McLuhan
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 medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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Technology
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Marshall McLuhan
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. – Francis Bacon

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Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art cant provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. – Alanis Morissette

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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you dont live it, it wont come out of your horn. They teach you theres a boundary line to music. But, man, theres no boundary line to art. – Charlie Parker

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I dont think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But its certainly worth a try. – Steven Spielberg

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Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. – Rumi

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw

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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. – Allen J. Boone

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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. – Amelia Barr

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