Norbert Elias Quotes
If the present study has any significance at all, this results not least from its opposition to this mingling of what is and what ought to be, of scientific analysis with ideals.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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In vain she told herself that he was unworthy any woman's trust and love, still the unconquerable sentiment that once made her happiness now remained to become her torment.
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The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.
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Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'
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I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
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What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.
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I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.
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...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.
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Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.
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If the present study has any significance at all, this results not least from its opposition to this mingling of what is and what ought to be, of scientific analysis with ideals.
