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First Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
- Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
- First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
- Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
- The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
- The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a…
- First we build the tools, then they build us.
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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