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Sara Mooney
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“Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance.
In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”
“McLuhanesque?”
“Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.”
“In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?”
“Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around.”
― 1Q84
In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”
“McLuhanesque?”
“Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.”
“In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?”
“Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around.”
― 1Q84
“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
― The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
― The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
― Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
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