"IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology"

-- C. Wright Mills

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“How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.149, Penguin
“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”
“Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“A laugh can be a very powerful thing.Â Why, sometimes in life, itâ€™s the only weapon we have.”

Source : "Fictional character: Roger Rabbit". "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", www.imdb.com. 1988.
“I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.”
“Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.”
“Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1429, eBookIt.com
“How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.”

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