"You are what you pretend to be."

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Source : Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity (2011). “Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas”, p.161, Random House

Stephen Bayley

“Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.”
“Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.”
“There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.”
“You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.”

Source : "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.
“You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.”
“Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.”
“Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.”
“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhonâ€™s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.”

Source : Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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