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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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
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I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
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I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.
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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.
