"Our national myths often exaggerate the role of……" — Robert D. Putnam
"Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort."
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Robert D. Putnam
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13 Quotes by Robert D. Putnam
Robert D. Putnam has 13 quotes on this site.
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic…
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Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
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The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human…
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Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes…
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Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
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What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but…
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A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money…
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Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and…
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Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.
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Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
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People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.
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Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.
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More Collective Quotes
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
— Isaiah Berlin
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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that…
— Buzz Aldrin
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
— David Cameron
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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the…
— Tony Campolo
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
— Deepak Chopra
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
— Deepak Chopra
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