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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

"Life is all about discovery."

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

"What we need to know can only be experienced."
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"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"

"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
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