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Quotes by Sociologist
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
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"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
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"No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing."
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"Leadership does not depend on being right."
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"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
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"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
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"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
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"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."
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"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die."
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"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."
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"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."
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"Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life."
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
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"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."
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"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
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"Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."
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"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality."
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."
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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."
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"But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation."
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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him."
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"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
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"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
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"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
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"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
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"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
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"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."
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"Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women."
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"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done."
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"Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy."
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"Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance."
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"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."
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"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
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"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
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"Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity."
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"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."
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"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
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"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."
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"When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan."
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