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“Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.”

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Jacques Delille, a French poet, was born on June 22, 1738, and died on May 1, 1813. His poetry works held an important position in French literature from the late 18th to the early 19th century. more

“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.”

Thinking World Book Ideas Earth Force Leader Teach Struggle Imagine Events Birth Politician Stronger Passionate Active Manifest Bursting

Author:Michel Foucault

“The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.”

Social Teacher Judging Doctors Workers Educator Social Worker Normality

Author:Michel Foucault

“Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.”

Form Limits Essentials Madness Remains Stranger Enterprise Sovereign Psychiatry Psychoanalysis

Author:Michel Foucault

“Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.”

Knows Men Has Beens Might Know How Seeing Generations Idiot Imitation Copying Imitating Grasshoppers

Author:Augusto Roa Bastos

“In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.”

Men States Moments Humanity Found Nations Exceptional Deficiency Decadence Nigeria Independence

Author:Augusto Roa Bastos

“In pain is a new time born.”

Pain Change Born

Author:Adelbert von Chamisso

“I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!”

Years Said Matter Hard Wanted Change Alive Love You Changed One Day Ears Selfish Anxious Relaxed Neurotic Don't Change

Author:Anthony de Mello

“A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Country Willing Very Good Be Good

Author:Jimmy Dean

“Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.”

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Author:Bob Geldof

“90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?”

Heart Divorce Odd Discontent

Author:Bob Geldof

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