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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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.

Above Career Elevate Even
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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Either Lives Off Politics
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Exact Important Laws Measure
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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.

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.

Always Cultural Knowledge May
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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Among Distribution Either Groups
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Cannot Club Cult Developed
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One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Absolute Anyone Cannot Ends
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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.

Available Causes Discard Favour
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Back Get Go Letting
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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.

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.

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.

About Criticize Excess Fashion
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Elusive Fleeting Gone Just
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

About Forgotten Know People
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People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

About Carry First Time
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People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Car Collect Get Longer
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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Away Fades Instant Patriotism
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Believable Must Poetic Secrets
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Boring Business Had How
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Careful Forget Get In The Past
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I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

Day Give Never One Day
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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.

Along Artist Business Count
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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.

Am Done Good Good Thing
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Dreams Lose Might Mind
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Anarchy Hope Only Slight
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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Anything Doing Overdoing Worth
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Alone Attention Boost Egos
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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.

Around Because Bread Came
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

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.

Always Been Like Mother
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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.

About Care Don't Care Face
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Arts Experience Personal Personal Experience
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

Actually Know Something You
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I always knew I'd go to space.
Always Go Knew Space
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