"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."

-- Peter L. Berger

#Mean Quotes #Simple Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.”
“Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.”
“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”
“You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”
“Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press
“The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.”

Source : "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.
“Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.”

Source : Erin Hunter (2009). “Warriors #1: Into the Wild”, p.18, Harper Collins
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.”

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