Erving Goffman Quotes
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
Ramakrishna
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
Orson Scott Card
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
Orson Scott Card
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
Arthur Miller
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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
David Souter
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
Barry Diller
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I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
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The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
Colleen Atwood
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In 1970, the developed nations had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30 percent to 15 percent. By 2000, they were at parity: each had about 20 percent.And by 2020?
Mark Steyn
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
Erving Goffman