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

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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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The sale begins when the customer says yes. – Harvey Mackay

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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. – Hilaire Belloc

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