"I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone."

-- Swoosie Kurtz

“A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.”

Source : "The Rules of Sociological Method". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 10), 1895.
“The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
“I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.”
“I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.”
“I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.”
“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”
“Earn your leadership every day.”

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