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"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."
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"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."

"Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."

"And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions."
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"A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before."

"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."

"One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine."

"Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age."

"Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made."

"If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society."

"Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations."

"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange."

"What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it."
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