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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society and act in accordance with that decision only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

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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. I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
  • 2. Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.
  • 3. At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music not only in recording but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
  • 2. As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.
  • 3. I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
  • 2. I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
  • 3. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
  • 2. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
  • 3. Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
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