"The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up."

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Source : Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

Gustave Le Bon

#Independent Quotes #People Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.”

Source : John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1988). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, a journey of adventure, ideas, and the future”, HarperCollins
“There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.”

Source : ANNE STEVENSON (1977). “COIL OF SERPENTS”
“Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal noÂ·m sent e si lâ€™ai gran, Quar de sâ€™amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja nâ€™aurai ni quan, Quâ€™en lieys es tota le mercÃ©s QueÂ·m pot sorzer o decazer.â€ â€œNot dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I donâ€™t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.”
“Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.”
“We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.”
“Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.”
“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”

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