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MARSHALL MCLUHAN Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday'...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information,...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Art is anything you can get away with.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespear...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
BARRY MARSHALL This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and...
PETER MARSHALL The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory ch...
THURGOOD MARSHALL To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
JOHN MARSHALL A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white...
THURGOOD MARSHALL If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.
PENNY MARSHALL