"Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

Khoi Vinh

#Strong Quotes #Communication Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.”
“love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”
“To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they donâ€™t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!”
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”
“I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'”
“If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.”
“At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.”

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