Quote #47

First Man made the hammer, then the hammer made the Man.

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  1. Rene Levesque looks like a distressed seminarian.
  2. Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either
  3. If it works, it's obsolete.
  4. Concepts are a provisional affair. (1951)
  5. I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.
  6. The perfection of the means of communication has given [the] average power complex of the human being an enormous extension of expression. …
  7. All advertising advertises advertising.
  8. With the return to simultaneity we enter the tribal and acoustic world once more. Globally. (1956)

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