Karl Mannheim Quotes
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
Taylor Momsen
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
Danica McKellar
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
Edgar Winter
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
Gail Carson Levine
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
Felicity Jones
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
Walt Handelsman
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
Manolo Blahnik
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
Adam Braun
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
Jack Ma
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
Forrest Bird
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I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith
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Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.
Olivier Theyskens
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
Tamron Hall
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Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.
Twinkle Khanna
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This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.
Tilda Swinton
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I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
Esther Hicks
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Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
Laura Riding
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A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.
Karl Mannheim