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“We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.”

Needs Should Body Form Causes Impossible Effects Information Objects Exercise Discovery Add Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

Feels Ideas Form Impossible Comfortable

Author:Al Gore

“Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.”

World Art Today Form Impossible Size France Cinema Representing

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.”

Humans Form Found Difficult Christ Impossible Heat Deities Footsteps Olives Ascent Human Form

Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

“I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.”

Thinking Art Form Impossible Dying Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:El-P

“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”

Government Form Impossible Fool Army Intelligent Majority Mediocrity Immense Multitudes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant (Illustrated)

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.”

Reality Form Suffering Results Impossible Acceptance Oneself Contact Flight Denial Remove

Book:Suffering

Source: Suffering

“It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.”

People May Mean Body Form Class Millions Impossible Investing Educate Interpreter

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.”

People Form Leader Impossible Heavy Shooting Preserves Attacking Tanks My Friendship Weaponry

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.”

Facts Reality Form Impossible Judgment Aspect Accepted Abstract

Book:The collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: pragmatism and pragmaticism

Source: The collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: pragmatism and pragmaticism

“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.”

“The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly interwoven with their whole course of legislation that it would be impossible to change them without affecting the very essence of their government.”

Whole Government Would Be Christian Form Courses Religious Moral Impossible Habit Essence Bases Legislation

Book:Americans

Source: Americans

“Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.”

Form Economy Impossible Taxation Inflation

Author:John J. Beckley

“Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.”

Years Light Might Lasts Form Next Impossible Changed Communication Internet Distance Speed Decades Smoke Data Mail Free Speech Primitive Replaced Signals Speed Of Light Smoke Signals

Author:Steve Martin

“Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.”

Humans War Form Peace Natural Impossible Periods Chaos Available Thirst

Author:Frank Herbert

“The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.”

“People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.”

People Thinking Persons I Can Form Certain Next Opinion Impossible Achieve Perfection Strive Unattractive

Author:Mila Kunis

“It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.”

Humans Spiritual Form Stuff Impossible Safe Aspect Preserves Esoteric Enclosure

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.”

Way Want Writing Believe Different Form Reading I Believe Impossible Different Ways Invites Muse Expanding Reading Poetry Good Poetry Perimeter

Author:Denise Duhamel

“The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.”

Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

“If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh is to recognize that it is totally impossible for it to ever be the same, night after night. You open your mouth and you'd like a certain sound to come out of it, but it doesn't always come out exactly like you thought it was going to come out!”

Ifs Way Art Two Form Night Certain Sound Acting Impossible Serious Like You Singing Mouths Repetitive

Author:Mary Travers

“Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.”

“The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues are likely to occur, though not with sufficient predictability for investors to comfortably take advantage. The government will take enormous risks in such interventions, especially if the expenses can be conveniently deferred to the future. Some of the price-tag is in the form of back- stops and guarantees, whose cost is almost impossible to determine.”

“A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.”

Form Impossible Subjects Creating Interaction Viewers Confrontation Portraiture

Author:Martin Schoeller

“...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.”

Mind Believe Humans Matter Form Causes Impossible Effects Design All Things Ultimate Human Mind Cause And Effect Regulators

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.”

People Way Stories Shows Form Term Challenges Impossible Produce Strange Exciting Theater Method Musical Caught These Days Caught Up Musical Theater

Author:Nick Blaemire

“My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.”

“I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.”

Way Would Be Wanted Form Impossible Available Impression Uncomfortable Wrong Impression

Author:Owen Pallett

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