Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été.
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Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.
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I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
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I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.
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The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
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I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.
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I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.
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Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.
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George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
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The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
