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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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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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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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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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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Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.
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I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
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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.
