"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."

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Source : "The Rules of Sociological Method". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 10), 1895.

Emile Durkheim

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“It was a realization for me when Oprah was talking about New Moon. I was like, "Oh, my god, she's watched a movie that I've been in!" People were like, "It just kicked in for you?," but it's just work for me. The idea that somebody that I've admired for so long had seen something that I'd done was when I understood the magnitude of it.”
“Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.”
“My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.”
“I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”

Source : "Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2" by Nikola Budanovic, www.warhistoryonline.com. August 22, 2016.
“I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.”
“Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.”
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
“In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.”

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