Niklas Luhmann Quotes
Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can maintain no operative contact with the outside world; and because it therefore remains dependent, for everything that it constructs, on its own distinction between self-reference and allo-reference?Niklas Luhmann
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne -
I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
Pat Burns -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
Olivier Theyskens -
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
Lana Parrilla -
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Dana Hussein -
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
Frances Beinecke -
I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.
Zoe Sugg -
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
Karen Gillan -
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Immanuel Kant
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
Zooey Deschanel -
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I've got a one-dimensional mind.
Bertrand Russell -
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
Dave Bautista -
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
Charles Stanley
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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
John Podhoretz -
Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.
Carl Reiner -
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
Barbara Jordan -
Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can maintain no operative contact with the outside world; and because it therefore remains dependent, for everything that it constructs, on its own distinction between self-reference and allo-reference?
Niklas Luhmann