Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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'I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.'
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I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.
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Why brilliant fashion-designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed,sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central.
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I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.
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Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.
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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
