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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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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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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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I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer. ↗

— Dolly Parton

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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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