Jacques Lacan Quotes

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

Jacques Lacan

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

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• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

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• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
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• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
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• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

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• There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  

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• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

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  • World
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• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
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• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
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• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
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• Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility.

  

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• Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

  

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• There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

  

  Davinia Taylor
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• There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's hard to be a real person around them, and I really want that when I'm not out on tour and in that sort of public eye.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • People
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  • Eye

• In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Reality
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• If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Facts