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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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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
— William J. Clinton
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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,…
— Emile Durkheim
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the…
— Seneca the Younger
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must…
— Henri Matisse
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
— Michelangelo
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An artist must not feel under any constraint.
— Henri Matisse
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of…
— Michael Stean
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Creativity comes from constraint.
— Biz Stone
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