"Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations."

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Source : Joshua Meyrowitz (1986). “No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior”, p.40, Oxford University Press

Joshua Meyrowitz

#Different Quotes #Behavior Quotes #Situation Quotes

“Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.”
“Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.”
“In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.”
“I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)”
“Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.”

Source : "Why I love ..." by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2005.
“All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not.”
“I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“New York is still where I live most of the time.”

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