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Robert Staughton Lynd [1892-1970] American

Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture and Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology.

Knowledge, Birthday, Brainy, Christmas, Friendship, Happiness, Poetry, Power

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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.	Knowledge, Power	101
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.	Christmas	102
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.	Friendship	103
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.	Birthday	104
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.	Happiness	105
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.	Brainy, Knowledge	106
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.		107
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.	Poetry	108
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.		109
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.		110
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.		111
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.		112
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.		113

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