Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Music is about the performance.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
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One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.
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On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
