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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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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 21st, 1911

Died: December 31st, 1980

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