"The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity."

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Source : "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.

Harold Innis

#Communication Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Elements Quotes

“I'd very much like to be Ava Gardner. She IS sex.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.”
“What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart....”

Source : Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com
“Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.”
“..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.”
“The wonder and awe of Christmas is just a beginning. Christmas reminds us that the babe born in Bethlehem has given us purpose for living, and what happens next to us largely depends on how we embrace our Savior, Jesus Christ, and follow Him.”
“Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?”
“Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”

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