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#1

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

tags: insight, opinion, probes, social-science, understanding, wisdom

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“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan

tags: creativity, shape, tools, work

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#6

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”
― Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village

tags: environment

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#7

“The medium is the message.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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#8

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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“Our technology forces us to live mythically”
― Marshall McLuhan

tags: technology

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#10

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
― Marshall McLuhan

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#11

“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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“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
― Marshall McLuhan

tags: assumptions, change, usefulness

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#13

“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

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#14

“Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.”
― Marshall McLuhan

tags: boundaries, limits

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#15

“All media work us over completely.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

tags: media, social-networking, tech

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#16

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]”
― Marshall McLuhan, La galaxia Gutenberg: Génesis del homo typographicus

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#17

“Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper.”
― Marshal McLuhan

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#18

“What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.”
― Donald A. Norman

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#19

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
― Molière

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#20

“Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

tags: sins-of-omission

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“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: lying, sins-of-omission

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#22

“I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!

For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!”
― Marguerite Wilkinson

tags: guilt, missed-chances, prayer, sin, sins-of-omission

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#23

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: acquiescence, activism, free-speech, justice, principles, protest

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#24

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: freedom, president, principles, privilege, society

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#25

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Robert Marley

tags: bob-marley, compassion, destiny, heart, humanity, inspirational, love

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“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: pain

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#27

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#28

“The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.”
― Plutarch

tags: knowledge-wisdom

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#29

“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”
― Joanne Harris

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#30

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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