Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
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Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
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Address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, in Königsberg (8 September 1930). The concluding statement was used as the epitaph on his tomb in Göttingen. Radio broadcast of the address, and transcription and English translation.
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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
