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Quote by Michel Foucault
Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a c

Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. – Michel Foucault

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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. – Michel Foucault

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Psychiatry
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. – Michel Foucault

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Madness
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. Its not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness. – Michel Foucault

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Chance
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. – Blaise Pascal

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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu

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I dont think Ive ever been an agnostic. Ive always thought theres a superior power, that this is not the real world and that theres a world to come. – Bob Dylan

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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. – Todd Gitlin

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It is easy to keep things at a distance; it is hard to be naturally beyond them. – Bunan

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I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? – Max Schmeling

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May your search through Nature lead you to yourself. – Author Unknown

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No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown,Jr.

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