"Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers."

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Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press

Harold Innis

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“We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.”
“Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.”
“I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.”
“Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.”
“The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.”
“I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.”

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