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Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less significant.
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One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
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Every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing...
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Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Helen Lynd
Born:
March 17, 1896
Died:
January 30, 1982
(aged 85)
Bio:
Helen Merrell Lynd was an American sociologist and social philosopher, and was the author of Shame and the Search for Identity and co-author of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture with husband Robert Staughton Lynd.
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