"What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common."

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Ruth Benedict

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Together Quotes

“Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.”
“I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.”
“One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.”
“The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.”

Source : "Inside the Actor's Studio", February 12, 2006.
“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

Source : "La suggestibilite". Book by Alfred Binet, p. 119-120, 1900.
“Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.”
“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. "It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.56, Diversion Books
“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.”

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