Niklas Luhmann Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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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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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
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I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
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The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.
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The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.
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For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.
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Since it has no boundaries, the world is not a system.
