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

— Ulrich Beck

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An army marches on its stomach. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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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

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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

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

— Margaret Halsey

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If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls! ↗

— Boris Becker

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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. ↗

— Gary Becker

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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. ↗

— Walter Becker

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Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

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