Edouard Glissant Quotes
To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;We tremble like wind-blown grass.
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Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
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Dog is God spelled backward.
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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
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The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
