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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Consists
Decency
Doing
Giving
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aspiring
Even
Highest
Honorable
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Baldness
Foolish
Grief
Hair
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Harder
Him
Inferiority
Man
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exempt
Fear
Nobility
True
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Again
Beings
Come
Creator
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dead
Life
Living
Memory
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mine
Thine
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Max Weber
Accomplishment
Achieved
Act
Again
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Max Weber
Above
Characterized
Disenchantment
Fate
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber
Decisive
Feeling
Passion
Politician
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Max Weber
Base
Calling
Crumble
Face
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Max Weber
Age
Computation
Even
Good
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
Max Weber
Boards
Boring
Hard
Politics
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
Max Weber
Facts
His
Inconvenient
Mean
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.
Max Weber
Base
Calling
Crumble
He
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
Max Weber
Evil
Follow
Good
Good And Evil
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Max Weber
Achievement
Any
Demanding
Everyone
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
Max Weber
Apparatus
Bureaucratic
Compares
Developed
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.
Max Weber
Above
Career
Elevate
Even
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Max Weber
Chance
Context
Even
Impose
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
Max Weber
Administration
Bureaucratic
Continuity
Costs
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.
Max Weber
Astonishing
Become
Despite
Easily
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
Max Weber
Again
Attained
Certainly
Experience
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.
Max Weber
Application
Arise
Cause
Determined
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
Max Weber
Appeared
Communist
Conception
Crude
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
Max Weber
Analysis
Assumption
Being
Conduct
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
Max Weber
Beings
Culture
Finite
Human
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All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
Max Weber
Always
Cultural
Knowledge
May
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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
Max Weber
Artistic
Bears
Concrete
Description
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.
Max Weber
Age
Analysis
Consider
Cultural
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
Max Weber
Analysis
Causal
Explanation
Judgment
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.
Max Weber
Above
Act
Avoidance
Breaking
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Max Weber
Agents
Concern
Criminal
Criminal Justice
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Max Weber
Among
Distribution
Either
Groups
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Max Weber
Confines
Exists
Hall
Integrity
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Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
Max Weber
Available
Causes
Discard
Favour
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger
Beckham
Confess
Girl
Her
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
Either
Erase
Great
Great Place
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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
Mick Jagger
About
Criticize
Excess
Fashion
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Mick Jagger
Away
Fades
Instant
Patriotism
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
Mick Jagger
Boring
Business
Had
How
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I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
Mick Jagger
Along
Artist
Business
Count
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
Mick Jagger
Anarchy
Hope
Only
Slight
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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Mick Jagger
Anything
Doing
Overdoing
Worth
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
Mick Jagger
Around
Because
Bread
Came
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
Mick Jagger
About
Care
Don't Care
Face
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
Mae Jemison
Between
Coin
Continuum
Creativity
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
Mae Jemison
Approach
Far
Faster
Find
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Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.
Francis of Assisi
Spiritual
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Arises
Heart
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