"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."

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"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Positive, Voice

"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images."

Huey Newton, American Activist

Positive, Media

"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way."

Jimmy Wales, American Businessman

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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

Mark Twain, American Author

Positive, Opinion, Public, Worth

"I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!"

Jenny Agutter, English Actress

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"I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district."

Lucille Roybal Allard, American Politician

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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man."

George Crook, American Soldier

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"For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness."

Reason

"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."

Accomplishment

"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."

Being

"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself."

Life

"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

Secrecy

"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

Cause

"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."

Economy

"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."

Life

"The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli."

Change

"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."

Society