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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its…
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The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,…
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
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Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a…
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the…
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits…
— Diane Ackerman
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and…
— John C. Maxwell
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to…
— Emile Durkheim
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.…
— Paul Fleischman
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and…
— Sun Tzu
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do…
— Joshua Foer
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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
— Carlos Castaneda
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
— Paul Theroux
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Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment -…
— Unknown Author
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies…
— Robert Boyle
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