Talcott Parsons Quotes
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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Death is better than slavery.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.
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There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
