George Ritzer Quotes

If states themselves are less able to handle various responsibilities, this leaves open the possibility of the emergence of some form of global governance to fill the void.

George Ritzer

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• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• I hate touchy-feely things.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
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• Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
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• If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

  

  Walker Percy
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• I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

  

  Andy Rooney
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• What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
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• I spend most of my time writing.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
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• In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

  

  E. B. White
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• Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol.

  

  Benjamin Creme
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  • Masonry
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• I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to.

  

  Nicki Minaj
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• There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.

  

  Eva Hoffman
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  • Ocean
  • Possibility

• If states themselves are less able to handle various responsibilities, this leaves open the possibility of the emergence of some form of global governance to fill the void.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Possibility
  • States
  • Responsibilities