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The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods. Emile Durkheim

Good Word Evil Sense Considered Churches Distinguished Definition Must Something Touchstone Given Ritual Sacred Majesty Call According Times Person Gods Human Transcendental Which Might Whose Serve

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life. Emile Durkheim

Life Knowledge Sense Active Liberal Those Classes Most Well-To-Do Intellectual Intellectual Life Taste Certainly Professions Wider

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world. Emile Durkheim

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other. Emile Durkheim

Knowledge Made Other Distinct Layers Proposition Like Sort Another Reduced Up Cannot Which Theory Elements Fundamental Two

I have never believed in the impossible. Faye Wattleton

Impossible Never Believed

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities. Faye Wattleton

Women Entered Responsibilities Relieved Deal Been Domestic Workforce

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women. Faye Wattleton

Women Doors Action Think Has-Been Cast Generally Opening Terms Been Affirmative Affirmative Action Role The Doors Race Themselves Played Cognizant

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country. Faye Wattleton

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. Georg Simmel

First Cities Economic Highest Division First Of All Labor Seats

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. Georg Simmel

Personality Superior Every Something Mysterious Performance Mankind Average

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. Georg Simmel

Good Nature Man Develop Common Should Originally

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. Georg Simmel

Secrecy Release Finds Tension Involves Revelation Which Moment

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Georg Simmel

Change Nervous Type Consists Outer Results Individuality Stimulation Stimuli Metropolitan Psychological Which Swift Inner Basis

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. Georg Simmel

Culture Out Constantly Objective Entirety More More And More Individual Impersonal Absorb Subjective Modern Modern Culture Energies Less Grow Growing

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. Georg Simmel

Money Economy Always Been Metropolis Seat

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. Georg Simmel

Relationship Mind Picture Every Other Reciprocal Evidently Take Between Causes Personal Form Personal Relationship Persons Each

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. Georg Simmel

Opportunities Men Ways Both Allocating Development Revealed Stimuli Metropolis Conditions Roles Which Us Presents Peculiar

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. Georg Simmel

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. Georg Simmel

Life Time Needs Personality Stream Made Sides Carry Easy Oneself Hand Offered Person Infinitely Interests Uses Swim Hardly Consciousness

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. Georg Simmel

Logical Result Exhausted Relationships Indifferent Individuality Sophisticated Reactions Operations Because Genuine Intellectually Person Cannot Which

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. Ivan Illich

Health Care Fact Health Care Were Discovery Effective Currently Depends

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