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One of the joys of being a grandparent is giving your grandchild caffeinated sugary drinks late in the day, and sending them home. Do you have any idea how many years I had to wait for that? ↗

— Neil Leckman

#virtual-cubicle #wurms #home

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#complex #conditions #controlled #could #ever

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#control #define #even #law #mass

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#conference #connects #consensus #continue #cosmopolitan

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #comes #complex #controlled #erroneous

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#between #cannot #dividing #lines #make

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#complex #deal #education #jobs #need

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#defeated #educated #refusal #some