Peter L. Berger Quotes
Secularization theory is a term that was used in the fifties and sixties by a number of social scientists and historians. Basically, it had a very simple proposition. It could be stated in one sentence. Modernity inevitably produces a decline of religion.Peter L. Berger
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Yuliya Snigir -
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
Barry Diller -
Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
Yves Behar -
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
Orhan Pamuk
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
Adam Carolla -
Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long -
There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
Fran Kranz -
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
Kate Middleton
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
Aaron Tveit -
I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.
Tavi Gevinson -
So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
Karl Lagerfeld -
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank
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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
Ian Mcewan -
Here was a type of the true elder race,And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
James Russell Lowell -
I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.
Klement Gottwald -
Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
Marshall McLuhan -
Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.
D. H. Lawrence -
Secularization theory is a term that was used in the fifties and sixties by a number of social scientists and historians. Basically, it had a very simple proposition. It could be stated in one sentence. Modernity inevitably produces a decline of religion.
Peter L. Berger