Ian Hacking Quotes

Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

Ian Hacking

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The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Jeremy Grantham

DeathPeopleEnvironmentalBetter

If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

Andy Daly

FeelI CanToo MuchWriteStageOut

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

JobManPeopleStandHonorYou

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Trevor Noah

RelationshipWomanFightWinStart

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

Mary Karr

GodPrayerBelievePresenceNeck

We were built to be rhythmic.

Michael W. Young

BuiltWereRhythmic

I made a pact with myself when I was 12 that I would only work with people who make me happy. I choose happy.

Michaela Watkins

WorkMyselfHappyPeopleMeChoose

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

Michelle Kwan

MusicStrongBodyWantHardHead

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

Michelle Obama

LoveTrustHardGoingEvenHe

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.

Louise Erdrich

BluePeoplePlacesMapDemocrats

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

PowerTrustManI AmWorldRemember

Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.

Jon Taffer

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