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"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

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"It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered."

"Give me a book, she said. "A book of sermons, anything."What do you want a book for?"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose."

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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."

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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
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