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.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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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.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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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.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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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.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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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.
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Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
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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.
