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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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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.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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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.
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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.
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I spend most of my time writing.
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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.
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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.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
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When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
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Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
