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So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had… — Albert Einstein
Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over there. What's hard is saying,… — Lou Gerstner
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind — Noam Chomsky
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can… — Kay Granger
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them.… — Gillian Welch
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just… — Stevie Nicks
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in… — William Howard Taft
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical… — John C. Maxwell
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. — Margaret Atwood
[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender… — Jonathan Franzen
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely… — William J. Clinton
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready… — Greg Nickels
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and… — Margot Livesey
The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better. — Osvaldo Ardiles
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for… — Grace Lee Boggs
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I… — Sven Birkerts
I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing… — Cindy Sherman

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