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Category: social psychology

Posted on May 28, 2021May 28, 2021

“People of the same trade are friendly.”—Irish proverb

Posted on May 22, 2021

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 14, 2021May 14, 2021

“Evils draw men together.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC

Posted on May 1, 2021May 1, 2021

“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

-“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”—Charles Colton, English writer, 1780-1832

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

“The best vision is insight.”—Malcolm Forbes, American publisher, 1919-1990

Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

“Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”—William Allen White, American newspaper editor, 1868-1944

Posted on March 27, 2021

“It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021

“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist, 1908-2006

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

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