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To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.


Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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and...
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NEIL MARSHALL Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action...
ROB MARSHALL The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and di...
PETER MARSHALL Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine tha...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attrac...
MARSHALL CURRY The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a l...
JOHN MARSHALL The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal ...
BURKE MARSHALL Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate i...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life a...
THURGOOD MARSHALL Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological ...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by t...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday'...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
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