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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

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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."

- Marshall McLuhan

Awareness

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

- Marshall McLuhan

Connection to Earth

"Only the vanquished remember history."

- Marshall McLuhan

Wisdom

"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."

- Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

Philosophy

"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

Philosophy

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

Philosophy

"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

Philosophy

"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

Philosophy