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"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."
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"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."

"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."

"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."

"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."

"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."

"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."

"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."

"One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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