Talcott Parsons Quotes
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
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For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
