"Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him."

-- Emile Durkheim

#Men Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Social Quotes

“Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.”
“I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.”
“I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."”
“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
“Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......”

Source : Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media
“I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach.”

Source : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.
“Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”

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