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Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#sociology

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ↗

— Karl Popper

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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. ↗

— Stephen King

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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. ↗

— Richard Matheson

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They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as entertainment. If the enemy tries to look like you and act like you, only in more affordable clothes, that person is still the enemy, only of a more contemptible, less terrifying variety- ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

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Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it. ↗

— Gail Omvedt

#dalit #sociology #sociology

...give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#eulogy #martin-luther-king-jr #racism #love

On the Writing Process: "When in doubt, take it out., ↗

— Barbara DaCosta

#children-s-books #mystery #picture-books #short-stories #writing-advice

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art