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Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
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Theodor W. Adorno
art
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
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Pierre Bourdieu
education
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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Emile Durkheim
happiness
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
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Talcott Parsons
questions
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
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Georg Simmel
life
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
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Max Weber
joy
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