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

— Georg Simmel

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

— Georg Simmel

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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. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement. ↗

— Russell Simmons

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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

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