Spin — A construal of life within the immanent frame that does not recognize itself as a construal and thus has no room to grant plausibility to the alternative. Can be either “closed” (immanentist) or “open” (to transcendence). See also take.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.

Gluttony is the act of digging a grave with your own teeth.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

One thing I was proud of when I did the college talks was that, although stories revolved around experiences that I had in wrestling, one did not need to be a wrestling fan to enjoy them.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.