There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
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Robert Staughton Lynd
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About Robert Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the co-author of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. He was also the author of Knowledge for What? The Place of the Social Sciences in American Cultu…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Robert Staughton LyndMost of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
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