Talcott Parsons

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.