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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan
Travel
Purpose
Now
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
Marshall McLuhan
Classroom
Eloquence
Today
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Earth
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
Tools
Money is a poor man's credit card.
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Money
Credit
Man
Poor
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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Technology
Consequences
Result
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Marshall McLuhan
Future
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
Tools
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Marshall McLuhan
Public
Want
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan
Work
Labor
Man
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
Independence
World
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Marshall McLuhan
Man
Name
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Marshall McLuhan
Despair
Feeling
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan
Politics
Will
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan
Being
Singing