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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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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. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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