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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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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
"You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants."
"I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points."
"The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back."
"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."
"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."
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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."
"Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts."
"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."
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