"Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each……" — David Riesman
"Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men."
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31 Quotes by David Riesman
David Riesman has 31 quotes on this site.
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Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications…
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It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
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The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a…
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If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
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Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a…
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America…
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to…
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
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More Amiable Quotes
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one of 82 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give…
— Jane Austen
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
— Samuel Butler
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
— Lord Byron
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more…
— Joseph Addison
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She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but…
— William Shakespeare
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
— Seneca the Elder
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one…
— Albert Einstein
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and…
— Queen Victoria
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If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such…
— H. L. Mencken
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