Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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The thinking in the show, the hacker thinking of how do you approach every problem, I think they're hacking life more than they're hacking systems.
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
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She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
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The Candy Man can
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.
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The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
