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.
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I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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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.
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Time stays, we go.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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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.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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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.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
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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.
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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.
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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
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[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.
