Michel Foucault Quotes
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.Michel Foucault
Quotes to Explore
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart Tolle -
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston -
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
Tammy Baldwin -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Felix Dennis -
If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
Victoria Justice -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
C. Everett Koop -
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
Irving Stone -
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
Yael Naim -
I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader al-Masri -
One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
Yuna -
Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
C. Thomas Howell
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Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
Joanne Rowling -
Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.
Rajeev Suri -
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N'Dour -
For any humanist such an incident would cause indescribable grief. But at the same time creating disturbances (ashanti), indiscipline, and expressing outrage (akrosh) is not the solution.
Narendra Modi -
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John Lennon The Beatles -
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.
Michel Foucault