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Small: Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad a
"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man
"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan
"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, Sociologist
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Small: Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it
"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval
"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniq
"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automat
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: Art is anything you can get away with
"Art is anything you can get away with"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old cul
"Art at its most significant is 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, Sociologist
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Small: Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is
"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, Sociologist
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Small: Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love
"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction
"An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values
"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: Affluence creates poverty
"Affluence creates poverty"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it
"A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided
"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
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Small: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street
"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to
"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Dont let yourself indulge in vain wishes
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent
"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: You can always tell a real friend: when youve made a fool of yourself he doesnt feel youve done a permanent jo
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Dont believe in miracles - depend on them
"Don't believe in miracles - depend on them"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isnt
"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout
"When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us
"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: If you dont know where youre going, you will probably end up somewhere else
"If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Going to church doesnt make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car
"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his she
"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Its better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence
"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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Small: Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it"
Laurence J. Peter, Writer
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