Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a ma

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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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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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a persons car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

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alone
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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About 70% of customers – Lee J. Colan

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Heres the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. Thats the true business precept. – Charles Dickens

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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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If the shoe fits, buy it in every color! – Author Unknown

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. – Les Brown

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Words derive their power from the original word. – Meister Eckhart

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. – Aristotle

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Its afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didnt necessarily prove that you loved him. – Marguerite Duras

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