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    Gilles Deleuze
    “I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: l-abécédaire-de-gilles-deleuze, philosophy, specialists
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: art, individuality, inspirational, life, new, otherness
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “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.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: facism, freedom, grammar, individuality, language, politics
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: freud, humor, philosophy, psycoanalysis
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: action, flux, identity, love, memory, movement, relationships
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: art, l-abécédaire-de-gilles-deleuze, philosophy, science
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
    tags: philosophy
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A great writer is always like a foreigner in the language which he expresses himself, even if this is his native tongue. At the limit, he draws his strength from a mute and unknown minority that belongs only to him. He is a foreigner in his own language: he does not mix another language with his own language, he carves out a nonpreexistent foreign language within his own language. He makes the language itself scream, stutter, stammer, or murmur.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it’s done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: l-abécédaire-de-gilles-deleuze
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    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
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    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Malcolm X
    “We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: freedom, self-worth
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    Malcolm X
    “Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: truth
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    Malcolm X
    “If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: metaphor
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    Malcolm X
    “I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: militancy
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    Malcolm X
    “I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: equality, humanity, integration, interfaith-marriage, intermarriage, interracial-marriage, marriage
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: argument, mathematics, schooling
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    Malcolm X
    “Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: activism, non-violence, racism, revolution
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    Malcolm X
    “You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
    ― Malcolm X
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