Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.
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Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
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The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
