"History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the presentâ€™s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present."

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Source : Elizabeth Grosz (2004). “The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely”, p.254, Duke University Press

Elizabeth Grosz

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“Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.”
“If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.”
“Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.”

Source : "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.
“It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.”
“Iâ€™m accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows”
“I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.”
“Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.”

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