"Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge"

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Source : Manuel Castells (2013). “Communication Power”, p.5, Oxford University Press

Manuel Castells

#Tools Quotes #Theory Quotes

“I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.”
“A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.181, Random House
“What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experience. And it's not a very easy task; you can't find stories that work that way too much of the time.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel”

Source : Edward Heath's speech at the Hotel Exhibition in Olympia, 1969.
“Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.”
“When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.”
“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.119, Random House
“The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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