Quote by Marshall McLuhan
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it a

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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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

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communication
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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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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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In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice. – Tony Alesandra

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Shopping

The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they dont have it in your size.
If you like it and it fits, you cant afford it.
If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it.
If the shoe fits, its ugly. – Proverb

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Buying is a profound pleasure. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Shopping

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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James A. Michener

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They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Attitude

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original Thriller album and I have a really great Elton Johns Greatest Hits, and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge. – Elisha Cuthbert

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Little things affect little minds. – Benjamin Disraeli

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