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- Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.…
- At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
- All words, in every language, are metaphors.
- All advertising advertises advertising.
- Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
- All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave…
- All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
- Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
- Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is…
- All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
- All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
- There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
- Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward…
- All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.
- All media work us over completely.
- I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and…
- As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle