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“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.”

Mean Play Term Differences Activity Elements Concern Function Productions Active Related Opposition Passive Systematic Intervals Indecision Passivity Spacing

Author:Jacques Derrida

“When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.”

Evil Literature Function Claims Excellence Opposition Good And Evil Betray Indifferent Forfeit

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.”

Character Democracy Minutes Function Ridiculous Newspapers Opposition Forfeit Quacks

Book:Diary of H. L. Mencken

Source: Diary of H. L. Mencken

“A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.”

Political Challenges Party Enemy Democracy Media Activity Function Murder Corruption Opposition Civil Society Uncovering Opposition Parties Political Enemies

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.”

Ifs Should Would Be Law Mother Asks Answers Watches Daughter Performances Function Traditional Opposition Comment Household In-laws Mother In Law Daughter In Law

Book:A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

Source: A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

“Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.”

Firsts Persons Self Function Contemplation Opposition Superficial First Person Transcendent

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation