"'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities."

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Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

Anthony Giddens

#Life Quotes #Mean Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”
“Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.”
“I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.”
“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.”
“Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.”
“Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important”
“People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.”
“After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.”

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