Ancheta Sociologica Quotes & Sayings

Intuition is what you know before you think. — John Assaraf

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds

Does the meaning of Jesus Christ for, say, George W. Bush have anything at all in common with his meaning for, say, Francis of Assisi? — Richard Seaford

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions. — Francis Parkman

...the littlest doll is the most solid of them all. It doesn't hide inside itself. — Hannah Brencher

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it. — Joe Biden

Around this time, the term "Calvinism" was used by its opponents to refer to the Reformed type of Protestantism as a means of emphasizing that it originated from outside Germany. The term appears to have been introduced around 1552 by the Lutheran polemicist Joachim Westphal to refer to the theological, and particularly the sacramental, views of the Swiss reformers in general, and of John Calvin in particular.27 — Alister E. McGrath

So we introduced a token system.9 The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be traded in for either thirty minutes of screen time or fifty cents at the end of the week, adding up to $5 or five hours of screen time a week. If a child read a book for thirty minutes, he or she would earn an additional token, which could also be traded in for screen time or for money. The results were incredible: overnight, screen time went down 90 percent, reading went up by the same amount, and the overall effort we had to put into policing the system went way, way down. In other words, nonessential activity dramatically decreased and essential activity dramatically increased. Once a small amount of initial effort was invested to set up the system, it worked without friction. — Anonymous