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“Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political." (112) They are NOT advocating for this sort of prescriptive approach to language; rather, they are describing the social system around language--how language is a political tool. Why persist in quoting them as though they are promoting some sort of linguistic purity?”

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Author:Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
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“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

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Book:The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man
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“... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki
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“I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?”

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Author:Clint Eastwood
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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

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Author:Winston Churchill
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“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman
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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

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Author:Michael Douglas
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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”

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Author:Oliver Stone
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“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.”

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Author:David Hackett Fischer
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