"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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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
-Marshall McLuhan
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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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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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"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.'"
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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
-John Cusack
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"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal."
-Amy Grant
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
-Willie Stargell
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
-Alfred Austin
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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