"The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition……" — Serge Daney

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• But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,… — Arthur Balfour
• Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
• I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation… — Grover Cleveland
• No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they… — Calvin Coolidge
• The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we… — Calvin Coolidge
• The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is… — Charles Horton Cooley
• It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates… — Mikhail Bakhtin
• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking… — Ansel Adams
• Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist… — Bell Hooks
• There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is… — Albert J. Nock
• Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the… — Geoff Nicholson
• I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for… — Franz Oppenheimer

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