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«Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
aspiration, competence, fathers, mothers, specialize, specialized, specializing
«Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations»
Author: Faith Baldwin
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
alteration, alterations, dressmaker, specialize, specialized, specializing
«The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
access, association, Association of, ever-changing, expert, furtherance, nevertheless, Open society, specialize, specialized, specializing, technological, uninhibited, unplanned, unrestricted
«What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible»
«I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
domestic, murders, specialize, specialized
«Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
circles, hall, meaninglessness, regarded, specialize, specialized, specializing
«The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
accomplishment, appropriate, combined, dispenses, informing, inspiring, modern science, narrowly, Real Genius, specialize, specialized, specializing
«Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
capitalists, employed, quell, quelled, revolt, revolted, revolts, specialize, specialized, specializing, weapon
«I told Mr. Hurt it was difficult for actors to play victims, but he has specialized in victims. When he stopped playing me, he played Caligula, which was only me in a sheet. Then he played The Elephant Man, which was only me with a paper bag over my head.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
Caligula, Elephant Man, paper bag, sheet, sheet of paper, specialize, specialized, specializing, The Elephant, The Elephant Man
«The scholar by his specialized knowledge and by making best use of his 'energy' attains the ultimate goal and supremacy.»
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