Marshall McLuhan
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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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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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.