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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession.… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“So he's a good, clean, decent man, and he's an enhancement to my life and he could also be an enhancement to… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
“Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Single parents - both women and men - can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image