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Category: social psychology

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

“You cannot conceive the many without the one.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on July 18, 2021July 18, 2021

“Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; American jurist; 1841-1935

Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988

Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”—Hannah Arendt, American political scientist, 1906-1975

Posted on June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

“The road to success is always under construction.”—Lily Tomlin, American comedian, 1939-

Posted on June 15, 2021

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on June 11, 2021February 26, 2023

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918

Posted on May 31, 2021

“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”—Charles Eliot Norton, American author, 1827-1908

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