Avital Ronell Quotes
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
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Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.
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I think (West Virginia) played with a great deal of heart and determination. They were small, but they fought hard. I don't know if we overlooked them, but there is no point complaining about it. We deserved to lose.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
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Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.
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Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.
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Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
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The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
