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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2013-07-08 10:10 pm
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Quote of the day

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"...people grow only by processes of encountering the unknown. Things and persons which are strange may upset familiar ideas and received truths: unfamiliar terrain serves a positive function in the life of a human being. The function it serves is to accustom the human being to take risks." (Sennett, 1976: 295)

Full Ref:
Sennett, R. (1976) The Fall of Public Man. London: Penguin.


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