Emile Durkheim Quotes
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I love creative people.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.
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Cats rule the world.
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Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.
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That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
