Michel Foucault Quotes
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
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Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
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This is not the case of a pampered athlete. This is not a case or a situation where someone said, 'Hey, I played ball. You need to treat me differently.' He took it like a man.
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Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.
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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
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Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!
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All I want to say is this: Wouldn't the world be a better place if there is peace?
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Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
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Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.
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Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
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If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
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Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population.
