"Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised."

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Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons

Anthony Giddens

#Practice Quotes #Risk Quotes #Concern Quotes

“When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.”
“For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .”
“That’s kind of where all my money goes. I’m going to be a very broke girl with a really great wardrobe.”
“Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.”
“Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.”
“If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.”
“Itâ€™s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
“It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.”

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