"All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody."
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"It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art."
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"Any breakdown is a breakthrough."
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"Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up."
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"Anything that's popular is a rear-view image."
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"One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in."
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"Jokes are grievances."
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"Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice."
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"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."
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"I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals."
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"Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world."
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"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."
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"The medium is the message."
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"The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system."
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"Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought."
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"All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information."
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"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."
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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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"In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation."
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"Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay."
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