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Wells Quotes by Anthony Giddens
- The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also…
- The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
- A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security -…
- Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of…
- Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in…
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