Ulrich Beck Quotes
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I would like to direct.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I've been training quite hard.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
