Judith Butler Quotes
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.
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I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
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Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
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It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
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I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
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Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
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But it is almost impossible to communicate with them one's spies in the enemy camp and receive the information they possess ... Even when the general receives from his spies information of movements, he still knows nothing of those which may since have taken place, nor of what the enemy is going finally to attempt.
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We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
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If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.
