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Quotes by Sociologist
"Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy."
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"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."
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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
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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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"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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"With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high."
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"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
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"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
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"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."
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"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."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government."
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"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."
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"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense."
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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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"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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"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."
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"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."
30
"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
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"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."
30
"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success."
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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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"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
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"You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances."
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"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."
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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
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"In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful."
30
"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system."
30
"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
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"That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way."
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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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"I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction."
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"In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances."
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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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"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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"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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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth."
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"Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific."
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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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"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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"The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war."
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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."
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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."
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