"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."

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Source : Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

Marshall McLuhan

#Life Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Views Quotes

“When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.”
“All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.”
“No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.”
“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”
“I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasnâ€™t destroyed them.”

Source : "How Paul Strand Photographed the 'People's History'" by Bob Duggan, bigthink.com.
“Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11
“Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.”
“Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.”

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