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Michel Foucault Quotes

Michel Foucault quote: "It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against -..."

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

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I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh. John Cleese
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