"Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly."

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Source : 1951 The Social System, ch.8.

Talcott Parsons

#Support Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'”
“Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.”

Source : Susan Cheever (2007). “American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.”
“Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.”
“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
“The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.”
“I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.”
“The show must go on all over the place or something.”

Source : "Fictional character: Finn Hudson". TV Series "Glee" ("A Night of Neglect", 2011), www.imdb.com. 2009–2015.

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