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Quotes by Sociologist
"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
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"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."
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"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."
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"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
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"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
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"When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan."
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"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
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"For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests."
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"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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"In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world."
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"The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system."
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"In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
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"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
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"The detached observer's view is one window on the world."
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"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
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"If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar."
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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
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"It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring."
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"That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
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"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."
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"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."
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"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."
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"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."
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"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."
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"Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth."
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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically."
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"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."
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"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
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"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed."
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"The public school has become the established church of secular society."
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"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
Life,
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"In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties."
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"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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"Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system."
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"In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies."
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"But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements."
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"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
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