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• The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its floating defines a space. The shape seems so obviously sci-fi, but fresh. The function could follow the form. The shape is beautiful and functional-which hits both of the pillars of American Needs right on the head.

  Tucker Viemeister

  Beautiful, Dream, Space

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• Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

  Jeff Flake

  Filled Out, Lobbyists, Staff

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• While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Art, World, Form

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• If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

  David Harvey

  Long, World, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

  Ben Elton

  Hippie, Thinking, Self

  Ben Elton (2008). “Stark: Satirical Thriller”, p.34, Random House

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• It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.

  Lev Manovich

  Names, Design, Special

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• In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism.

  Irving Sandler

  Real, Copying, Way

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

  Edmund Burke

  Unjust, Ancestry, Birth

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Hands, Order

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.137, VM eBooks

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• The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Organization, Receiving

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...”, p.3451, Madison & Adams Press

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• I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.

  Marlene Dumas

  Ideas, Doubt, Guilt

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• The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

  Marco Polo

  Law, Doe, Done

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• I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  President, Constitution, Warrants

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.

  Karl Marx

  Character, Class, Want

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.60, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Sex, Passion, Power

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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• It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Patriotic, Rights, Citizens

  Fourth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. December 06, 1880.

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• I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

  David Ogilvy

  Awkward, Marketing, Needs

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

  John Ensign

  Spending, Committees, Senate

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• Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, Military, Winning

  John Foster Dulles (1960). “The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles: Selections from His Articles and Addresses”, Philadelphia : Westminister Press

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• It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  People, Doe, Mouths

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• Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

  Bell Hooks

  White, Feminist, Ease

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Distance, Responsibility

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• There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

  Albert J. Nock

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 59), 1935.

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• Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Writing, Thinking, Literary Theory

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• I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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