Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
Carly Fiorina
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That consecrated combination of private interests and public plunders.
Oswald Mosley
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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
H. L. Mencken
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Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
Langston Hughes
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London Calling - Yes, I was there, too,And you know what they said? Well some of it was true.London Calling at the top of the dial…And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
Joe Strummer
The Clash
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
Paloma Picasso
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
Fidel Castro
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The popular rallies at Rabaa al-Adawiya and other squares across Egypt will defeat despotism and terrorism in the long run. But in the meantime, any solution that fails to restore the public's confidence in the ballot box and falls short of alleviating the sense of victimhood in the Morsi camp will be doomed to failure.
Tawakkol Karman
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Open-minded people will not necessarily agree with me, not when my arguments don't make sense to them. But open-minded people do listen, and if I explain and when it is important, they are willing to invest in reevaluating their cause-and-effect connections.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.
Logic
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss