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Quote by Emile Durkheim
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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State
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. – Emile Durkheim

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Sadness
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

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Suicide
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Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams. – Novak Djokovic

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Dreams

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Dreams

Most reality shows arent reality at all. Theyre game shows with no prize. Like Rock of Love. His arent genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didnt really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyones dreams. – Hal Sparks

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Dreams

Weve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. – Jesse Jackson

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I didnt run for student council president. I dont see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. Im not particularly fond of politics. – Condoleezza Rice

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Politics

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Fear

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann

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Death

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didnt like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. – Stephen Colbert

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teacher