"The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition."

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Source : Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

Carl Schmitt

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“You can create art that makes people feel better.”

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“There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.”
“When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.”
“Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And weâ€™re no different youâ€™re saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilitiesâ€¦.”
“It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.”
“Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.”
“It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.”

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“Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.”

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