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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Allow Boycott Consider Craven Distinct Elected Government People Pressure Tactic
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Clash Color Cymbal Effect Lullaby Matisse Neither Together
No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Belong Draw Naturalist Paint Photograph Subject Way
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Be Naked Oneself
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Again never One Shall Single Stories Story Told
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Alone Autobiography Begin Form Orphan Sense
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Adjustment Against Derive Hope Injustice Justice Little Protest Shouting
The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Cigarette Dialogue Noth Parentless Proscenium Shar Time
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Doe Drawing Image Imitation Life Photograph Photography Rendering Subject Trace Unlike Viewer Visual
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Capable Contrast Done Men Presence Suggest You
It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Autobiographical Discovery Drawing Event Imagine Record Remembered Seen
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Animal Look Offer Opportunity Public Purpose Visitor Zoos
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Calculate Destination Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible

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