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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated…

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…

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Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them. — Thomas Carlyle
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected… — Adolf Hitler
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense… — B.F. Skinner
Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury – the phenomenon is an actual fact … all of the… — Osama bin Laden
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really… — Tom Hodgkinson
We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting… — Kim Il-sung
It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting… — Unknown Author
It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I,… — Thomas S. Monson
And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that… — Sydney Banks

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