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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. ↗

— William Pitt

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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. ↗

— William James

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

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The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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