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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

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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. Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
  • 2. It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear in terms of concept… It's not about age. It's about taste and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
  • 3. I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now maybe things would happen for me but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians 12 dancers two major guest stars 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director and has an amazing ability to express himself and he doesn't do it in musical terms he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
  • 2. We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before – sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
  • 3. I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out – there is hearing help out there and the technology and options are amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
  • 2. In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking when my anger was aroused I grabbed the nearest brick rock or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
  • 3. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
  • 2. If you give people nothingness they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
  • 3. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
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