Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
quote by Benjamin Whorf
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
quote by Edward Koch
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Relationships
‘I love him – that’s why we’re together…’
‘I love her too – but sometimes
we drive each other up the wall…’
If your past, mate, were her past –
this person that you ofttimes love;
if her pain – which she does not
herself understand, yet feels;
(and always at the wrong time for you..):
if her self-awareness – sometimes
so sharp and so perceptive –
matched at every moment
your fluctuating, sometime
equally sharp, perceptive, own –
then, you would think and act
exactly as she does…
ah, there’s forgiveness;
there’s compassion; and there’s peace;
and then, there’s only - love;
there’s only love.
Love is always now;
and then, there’s only love.
(With acknowledgements to Eckhart Tolle…)
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Party-Lad
You are perceptive, so sensitive to light,
That it endangers your being and makes calamity.
Exciting and smelling of jeopardy,
The night will be seen as dancing of two nights.
The blackout lasted so bright with aromas and festivity,
Aware were the hungry hundred diners,
In the night so perceptive, and sensuous with food.
I have eaten on nights that climb light,
Yet eyes suddenly vanish from the scene.
Be on the days, be on the nights,
Like an endangered man of gate-crashing.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
quote by Steve Hackett
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
quote by Virginia Woolf
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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
quote by James Reston
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
quote by Clifford Geertz
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Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
quote by Clifton Daniel
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
quote by Sarah Caldwell
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I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
quote by Ashley Judd
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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
quote by Michael Apted
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
quote by Robert M. Pirsig
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
quote by Thomas Sowell
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
quote by Toni Morrison
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The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
quote by Solomon Burke
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
quote by Samuel Alexander
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A Runner With The Pack
Hes got a second side hes got sixth sense
He got everything
He got what it takes
He got what it makes to be everything
Seems to know all there is to know
I took him there
He steals the show
Hes so astute hes so acute hes gold sure he is
Hes eloquent hes intelligent and benevolent
Hes the epitome of ability with his expertise
Hes versatile with a lot of style
Hed mess my heart every time hed smile
So unpretentious a warm and gentle soul
A runner with the pack, no hes not like that
A runner with the pack, no hes not like that
Cause hes inventive, attentive, protective, selective
Perceptive, receptive, affective, reflective
A runner with the pack, no hed never do that
He got tolerance he got confidence hes significant
And hes a connoisseur and a social stir hes magnificent
So fair and square he reciprocates
And every way he stimulates
His quality of voracity is great
A runner with the pack, no hes not like that
A runner with the pack, no hes not like that
Cause hes inventive, attentive, protective, selective
Perceptive, receptive, effective, reflective
(you know the hes)
A runner with the pack, no hed never do that
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
quote by Alain Resnais
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
quote by Robert Anton Wilson
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