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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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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How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?
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You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred, and exclusiveness, and anger. And it's really just a matter of what concepts, ideas you decide to focus on.
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Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
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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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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
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It isn't ever delicate to live.
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
