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Quote by Raoul Vaneigem
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem

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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem

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positive
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Knowledge
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary. – Thomas Middleton

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Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. – Jim Bakker

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For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you dont do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals. – John H. Johnson

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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. – Audre Lorde

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand

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