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Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

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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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If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends. . . as an orgy of materialism.

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Sociology should. . . be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

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