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“Why, then, is it so crucial to have ethnographies of urban policing? The answer to this question certainly becomes clearer now. It is not simply that ethnography provides a sort of immersion in the world of law enforcement, allowing us to understand what happens when the police are in the field. It is perhaps more importantly that it produces a vision of a world that has been made either invisible or opaque to most of us.”
― Didier Fassin, Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing

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“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

tags: bourdieu, feminism, gender, psychology-quotes

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“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

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“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

tags: metaphor, mind

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#5

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

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“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

tags: bureaucracy, innovation

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“Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

tags: mythology, religion, science-fiction

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“Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

tags: belief, ethics, existentialism, meaning-of-life, mythology, prophecy, religion, science-fiction

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“You seldom learn the names of the truly wealthy and powerful. You see only their spokesmen. The political arena makes a few exceptions to this but does not reveal the full power structure.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

tags: politics, science

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“One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances.”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

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#11

“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: government-humor

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#12

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#13

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination

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#15

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: education, sex

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#16

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: open-mindedness, simile

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#17

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music

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#18

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: humor-jazz, music

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#19

“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: frank-zappa, originality, people, weird

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#20

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

tags: music

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#21

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

tags: humor, music, writing

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#22

“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
― Frank Zappa

tags: hair, humor, retort

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#23

“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

tags: comedy, drugs

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#24

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: stupidity

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#25

“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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#26

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: freedom-illusion

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#27

“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: art, profit

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#28

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: children, religion

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#29

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music-religion

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#30

“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: religion

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