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"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
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"Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions."
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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."
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Personal Development
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"
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Personal Development
"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."
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Personal Development
"With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!"
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Personal Development
"In your winter you deny your spring."
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Personal Development
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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Personal Development
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
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Personal Development
"Change is a difficult process. It can truly take place in an environment of support, structure, and sacrifice. Support comes from asking for help, seeking professional coaching, and surrounding yourself with the right people. Structure requires accountability, a follow-up system, and action. Sacrifice requires paying the price and getting out of your comfort zone but staying in your strength zone."
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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
Democracy
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
Society
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
Cultural
"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
Religion
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
People
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
Change
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
Democracy
"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."
Religion
"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
Society
"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
Christian
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