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Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of…

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to… — Georges Clemenceau
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You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer. — Napoleon Hill
Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view. — L. Ron Hubbard
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection,… — Caleb Cushing

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