"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."

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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

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“I am really, truly a hopeless romantic, myself, and I am also obsessed with past lives, knowing someone from a past life and knowing that right away, when you meet them. I really believe in inexplicable connections with people, and the way your subconscious enters your dreams. Those are themes in life that I'm really fascinated in.”

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“I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.”
“Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.”
“We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.”
“I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didnâ€™t glow. The sun didnâ€™t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.”
“The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.”
“I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.”
“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.”

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