"The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices."

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Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.188, John Wiley & Sons

Anthony Giddens

#Choices Quotes #Risk Quotes #Culture Quotes

“When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.”
“There's a lot of pain and suffering out there. I think there needs to be more joy, and love, and ***** in the world. We are a pleasure-negati ve society. Suffering is much more acceptable. And I want to tell women that they are sexually powerful beings, but they often don't get in touch with it because they are socialized to please men.”
“One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable”

Source : "Jeremy Irons: prophet of doom" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.
“It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.”

Source : Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing
“If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way,”
“to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.”

Source : Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers
“Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.”
“guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine”

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