Judith Butler Quotes
The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)
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As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
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Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
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Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.
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I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.
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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
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This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
