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Talcott Parsons

"The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system."

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Donna Grant

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

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Donna Grant

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

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Donna Grant

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

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Donna Grant

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

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Donna Grant

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

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Donna Grant

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

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Donna Grant

"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

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Donna Grant

"The hard fact is that not everyone does get published."

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Donna Grant

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

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Talcott Parsons
"From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself."

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Talcott Parsons
"The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing."

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Talcott Parsons
"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality."

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Talcott Parsons
"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper."

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Talcott Parsons
"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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Talcott Parsons
"Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir."

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Talcott Parsons
"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."

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Talcott Parsons
"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."

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"If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction."

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Talcott Parsons
"Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible."

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