"Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

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“Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a'Â Â son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.”

Source : 1956 L'E' re du soupc - on.
“Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.”
“I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.”
“To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.”
“I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.”
“The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?”
“It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.”
“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

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