"Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society."

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Source : 1894 An Introduction to the Study of Society (with George E Vincent, 1894).

Albion Woodbury Small

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“You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.”

Source : "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.
“I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.”
“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.”
“Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.”
“In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have been altered by changes to your hypothalamus. You no longer need to sleep or see sunlight.”
“What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”
“During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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