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Michel de Certeau has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a…
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these…
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like…
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An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
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A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able…
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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and…
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he…
— Christiaan Barnard
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We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the…
— Shepard Smith
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There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how…
— Paul Castellano
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk…
— Alasdair Gray
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Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give…
— Mother Teresa
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Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak…
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