#genera

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 do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#bring #families #generation #great #great way

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#better #brick #creation #each #edifice

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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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

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My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it. ↗

— Jeremy Paxton

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I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely. ↗

— Guy Pearce

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If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

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