- Emile Durkheim
(04/15/1858 – 11/15/1917)
French sociologist
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"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."
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"Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them."
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| "Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen." |  |
| "This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world." |  |
| "The secret of charm is bullsh*t." |  |
"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."
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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."
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