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Letter "E" » electric
«The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.»
«Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| Keywords:
commended, commends, diseases, efficient, electric, electric light, industrial, justly, policeman, publicity, social disease, sunlight
«The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action,»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Technology
| Keywords:
aspect, electric, evaluate, evaluated, forcing, interdependence, medium, patterns, Personal life, practically, reconsider, reshape, reshaped, reshaping, restructure, restructuring, social action, social process, technology, thought process
«One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Electricity,
Living
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, effects, electric, habitually, overload, overloaded
«There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
An electric, electric, Electric fence, fence, fenced in, fence in, fencing, few, kinds, learns, observation, on the fence, pee, peed, peeing, reading, rest, themselves, three
«The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
closeted, closets, come out of the closet, dislike, electric, electric light, prices, See of, the closet, vulgar, wages, water closet, water down
«We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
An electric, bills, electric, electricity, electric company, figure out, keep company, sending, travels, wired, wires, wiring
«There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
An electric, continually, electric, electric fire, heroism, pearl, purifies, purify, rubbish, tending
«Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.»
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth
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