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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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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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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
Max Weber
Boards
Boring
Hard
Politics
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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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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 ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
Max Weber
Another
Complementary
Conviction
Ethic
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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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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.
Max Weber
Either
Lives
Off
Politics
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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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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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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Max Weber
Exact
Important
Laws
Measure
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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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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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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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One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
Max Weber
Absolute
Anyone
Cannot
Ends
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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 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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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger
Believable
Must
Poetic
Secrets
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
Mick Jagger
Am
Done
Good
Good Thing
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
Mick Jagger
Anarchy
Hope
Only
Slight
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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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick Jagger
Age
Believe
Children
Early
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger
Always
Been
Like
Mother
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
Mae Jemison
About
Backdrop
Different
Different Perspective
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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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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
Down
Early
Elite
Expectations
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi
While
Proclaiming
Peace
Your
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden
Men
Fail
Through
Lack
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Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.
Francis of Assisi
Dear
God
Please
Reveal
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.
Francis of Assisi
Greatest
Security
World
Grace
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine
Although
Among
Impure
Light
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Orison Swett Marden
Books
Those
Which
Lift
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
Any
Appearance
Cannot
Does
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
Attained
Contradictory
Experience
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Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
Like
Love
You
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Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
Francis of Assisi
Maxim
Sight
God
More
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
Impossible
Indeed
Lives
Make
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
Our
Greatest
Fear
Failure
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Orison Swett Marden
Stimulus
Comes
Consciousness
Knowing
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Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'
Dwayne Johnson
Even
Every
Get
Happen
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine
About
Begin
Being
Construct
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God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
Francis Chan
God
Allowed
Show
Great
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
Francis Chan
Life
About
Jesus
Here
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