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Society
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.
-Emile Durkheim
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State
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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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Suicide
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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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Thought
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.
-Emile Durkheim
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Crime
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There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.
-Emile Durkheim
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Loss
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
-Leo Durocher
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Baseball
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
-Leo Durocher
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Baseball
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.
-Leo Durocher
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Baseball
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
-Leo Durocher
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Competition
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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
-Leo Durocher
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