Karl Mannheim Quotes
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.Karl Mannheim
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I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.
Ieva Laguna -
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
Bebe Moore Campbell -
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
Manfred von Richthofen -
Time stays, we go.
H. L. Mencken -
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld -
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley -
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
Wayne Allard -
Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
Karen Kingsbury
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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
Fernando Pessoa -
I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
N. K. Jemisin -
Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.
Linus Torvalds -
I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
Chris Kyle -
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
Alton Brown -
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour
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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
Phyllis Diller -
You can't get tired in the studio. It's really tough. But you just gotta keep on going.
Post Malone -
My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
Kirby Larson -
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
Karl Mannheim