Talcott Parsons Quotes
A social system is a mode of organization of action elements relative to the persistence or ordered processes of change of the interactive patterns of a plurality of individual actors.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
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If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her memory or have the chance to undo, it would be, 'Let's do it again.'
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There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
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Things are a little different ... The way the organization is run is a lot different, but who's to say the correct way to run it? It's stable. There's not a lot of in and out. You know who the coach is. You know who the core guys are. I thought I was one of the core guys there, but obviously I got out of there.
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A social system is a mode of organization of action elements relative to the persistence or ordered processes of change of the interactive patterns of a plurality of individual actors.
