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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#become #controlled #corporations #doubtful #huge

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#championships #history #lot #new #new york

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#become #cannon #care #children #fodder

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#differentiated #directly #family #functions #highly

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#equations #four #manipulation #missing #only

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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