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Helen Merrell Lynd
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“... every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing ...”
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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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“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.”
Helen Merrell Lynd, U.S. sociologist, writer, educator
(1896 - 1982)