Talcott Parsons Quotes
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.
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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
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Now it is time to build on that, to make it even better, and to bring this amazing product closer to our fans, while making it appealing to new and younger audiences as well.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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It's good to put money back into communities.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
