"The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion."

-- Adolphe Quetelet

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“What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.”
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.”
“Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.”
“It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.”
“A love song is just a caress set to music.”
“The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.”
“The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1665). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; In an Essay of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinon. With a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius”, p.122

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