#pen

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #depends #development #elements #far

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#course #dead #made #may #others

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#ended #hill #i #like #look

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

#developed #earlier #element #general #important

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. ↗

— Jason Patric

#blatant #brand #business #celebrity #exhibitionism

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#awareness #breast cancer #cancer #diabetes #fact

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#feel #good #good chance #happen #i

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#civil #civil war #constitution #declaration #i

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence