"If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?"

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Source : Karl E. Weick (1995). “Sensemaking in Organizations”, p.35, SAGE

Karl E. Weick

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Identity Quotes

“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
“I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore”
“When you think you're seeing something, what you need to find out is, 'Is that true?”

Source : "Q&A with MLB Network’s Brian Kenny". Interview with Chad Finn, www.boston.com. December 12, 2011.
“I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.”
“It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.”
“I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media
“I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.”
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.”

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