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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

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Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Category: Knowledge

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age to die young but then you'd never complete your life would you? You'd never wholly know you.
  • 2. There is no age height or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive most start young. But I practice with many adult competitors.
  • 3. Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

2 Amazing

  • 1. And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity it's like a set in a movie.
  • 2. I mean there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
  • 3. If you have only 95 minutes of material make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.
  • 2. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
  • 3. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
  • 2. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
  • 3. Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
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