Max Weber Quotes
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
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No matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith.
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There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.
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It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.
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I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
