Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point."
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Vanishing
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Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon."
Cornel West
Philosopher
"We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!"
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"There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future."
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"To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful."
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"The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem."
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