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"Literacy, in translating man out of the closed world of tribal depth and resonance, gave man an eye for an ear and ushered him into a visual open world of specialized and divided consciousness."

- Marshall McLuhan

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"King Lear is a working model of the process of denudation by which men translate themselves from a world of roles to a world of jobs. (p. 16)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. (p. 18)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world. (p. 21)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. (p. 26)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes? (p. 28)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"Civilization gives the barbarian or tribal man an eye for an ear and is now at odds with the electronic world. (p. 30)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"What began as a "Romantic reaction" towards organic wholeness may or may not have hastened the discovery of electro-magnetic waves. But certainly the electro-magnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous "field" in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a "global village." We live in a single constricted space resonant with tribal drums. So that concern with the "primitive" today is as banal as nineteenth-century concern with "progress," and as irrelevant to our problems. The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (p. 36)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"Literacy affects the physiology as well as the psychic life of the African. (p. 38)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. (p. 41)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. (p. 47)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"The twentieth century encounter between alphabetic and electronic forces of culture confers on the printed word a crucial role in staying the return to “the Africa within.” (p. 51)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress. (p. 54)"

- Marshall McLuhan

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"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."

- Mel Brooks

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"If they [presidents] can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."

- Mel Brooks

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"Little John: Let's face it — you've got to be a man to wear tights!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Man In Front of Castle: Hey Abbot!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"

- Mel Brooks

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"Lady, it rose below vulgarity."

- Mel Brooks

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"Who's the dummy writing this show?!"

- Mel Brooks

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"I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another "Frankenstein." I said not another — we've had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don't need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, "That's funny.""

- Mel Brooks

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"Comedy is a weird but very beautiful thing. Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition. Because if you can laugh, you can get by. You can survive when things are bad when you have a sense of humor."

- Mel Brooks

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"To me, tragedy is if I'll cut my finger, that's tragedy...Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die."

- Mel Brooks

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"[explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic] He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. "They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming""

- Mel Brooks

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"After I eat asparagus..."

- Mel Brooks

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"You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those."

- Mel Brooks

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"Angel of Death ain't kissing me! I'm full of garlic!"

- Mel Brooks

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"It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!"

- Mel Brooks

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"[on ancient poetry] Nog Nog! Mkellen bebog! V'luch Matuch Maluch M'tog!"

- Mel Brooks

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"[on the greatest invention] Liquid Prell."

- Mel Brooks

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"No! You don't wear a hat on your gentles! You wear a hat on your head where you're supposed to wear a hat!"

- Mel Brooks

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"[On Churchill's Accent] "Ve must conquer da Narjies!" Now, we were fighting and killing Nazis. We all left and went looking for Narjies!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Max Bialystock: That's it, baby, when you've got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come and join the Nazi Party!"

- Mel Brooks

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"LSD as Adolf Hitler: Heil Baby!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Lead Tenor Stormtrooper: Springtime, for Hitler, and Germany Winter, for Poland and France!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings! Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?"

- Mel Brooks

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"Hope for the best. Expect the worst. The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed. No way of knowing which way it's going. Take your chances, there are no answers. Hope for the best. Expect the worst."

- Mel Brooks

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"Jim "The Waco Kid": My name is Jim, but most people call me...Jim."

- Mel Brooks

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"Sheriff Bart: Good mornin', ma'am! And isn't it a lovely mornin'? Old Woman: Up yours, nigger! Jim "The Waco Kid": [consoling Bart afterwards]: What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers … these are people of the land … the common clay of the New West. You know – morons."

- Mel Brooks

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"Sheriff Bart: Excuse me while I whip this out."

- Mel Brooks

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"Sheriff Bart: Where the white women at?"

- Mel Brooks

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"Railway Worker: You shifty nigger! They said you was hung! Sheriff Bart : And they was right!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Sheriff Bart [waking up a drunk Jim in jail]: Are we awake? Jim "The Waco Kid": We're not sure. Are we...black? Sheriff Bart: Yes, we are. Jim "The Waco Kid": Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled."

- Mel Brooks

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"Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time? Jim "The Waco Kid": Oh you know, play chess...screw. Sheriff Bart: (Quickly) Let's play chess!"

- Mel Brooks

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"Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up."

- Mel Brooks

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"Igor (limping off): Walk this way — and Dr. Frankenstein limps off after him."

- Mel Brooks

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