Niklas Luhmann Quotes
In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself? … No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort. The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art. But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in its effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique.Niklas Luhmann
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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Walter Bagehot -
For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
Fabrizio Moreira -
When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
Frances Beinecke -
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
Candice Patton
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
Kate Winslet -
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Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Andy Grove -
We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.
Alfred Bester -
Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchiaIl grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse.
Ludovico Ariosto -
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
Douglas Brinkley -
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson -
Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
Bernie Fuchs -
Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.
Jon Voight -
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G. I. Gurdjieff -
In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself? … No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort. The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art. But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in its effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique.
Niklas Luhmann