Albion W. Small Quotes
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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God does arithmetic.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
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'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
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There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
