Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
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To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
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The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.
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Like species, couples die out or evolve.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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If you don't own traditional dumbbells, you can also use soup cans or bottles of water.
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I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
