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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
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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
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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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We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall McLuhan
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan in
Nature
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
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