Alain Badiou Quotes
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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Maybe I am just a jerk.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
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Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
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It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.
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It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
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I think being humble is sexy.
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Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
