"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."

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Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

Talcott Parsons

#Facts Quotes #Problem Quotes #Relevant Quotes

“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.”
“Leadership does not depend on being right.”
“Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.”
“Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water”
“Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.31, Grove Press
“The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.”
“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”
“God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.”

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