Niklas Luhmann Quotes
No matter how abstractly formulated are a general theory of systems, a general theory of evolution and a general theory of communication, all three theoretical components are necessary for the specifically sociological theory of society. They are mutually interdependent.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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No matter how abstractly formulated are a general theory of systems, a general theory of evolution and a general theory of communication, all three theoretical components are necessary for the specifically sociological theory of society. They are mutually interdependent.
