Top 71 Putnam Quotes

#1. Look, we ought to do this for our kids ... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #9017
#2. Men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothing else.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #30015
#3. The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #50510
#4. Parental wealth is especially important for social mobility, because it can provide informal insurance that allows kids to take more risks in search of more reward.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #75362
#5. I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

Peter L. Berger

Putnam Quotes #132753
#6. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #143036
#7. People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #149391
#8. I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!" - Dr. Christine Putnam

Jordan L. Hawk

Putnam Quotes #152436
#9. Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #169939
#10. John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #255994
#11. My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

Barrett Foa

Putnam Quotes #277972
#12. In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth, and by $745,000 a year for the top 1 percent of households.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #307977
#13. The danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #309815
#14. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

Frank W. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #319273
#15. Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #336693
#16. None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #351765
#17. Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in one stores 12% and in the other 16% had received electroconvulsive therapy.

Colin A. Ross

Putnam Quotes #382687
#18. Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #420063
#19. The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #446668
#20. Causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #457450
#21. The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #457585
#22. [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #478533
#23. Generally speaking, lower-tier grandparents mostly donate time, replacing parental resources, whereas upper-tier grandparents mostly donate money, supplementing parental resources

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #498767
#24. My whole existence is governed by abstract ideas ... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #501537
#25. This language implies the covenant is unique to Earth, exclusive to humans, and universally unprecedented.

Cris Putnam

Putnam Quotes #536939
#26. We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #550970
#27. The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #567894
#28. The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #568929
#29. TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #665563
#30. Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,
not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us
the Irish!

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #675456
#31. Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #697063
#32. Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives ... Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #755996
#33. To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #900044
#34. Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #910092
#35. What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #915602
#36. The term "exobiology," sometimes interchanged with astrobiology, is actually much more specific - it covers the search for life beyond Earth and the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living things. Today, it is considered a subdiscipline within astrobiology.

Cris Putnam

Putnam Quotes #919963
#37. How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #927439
#38. People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #974685
#39. If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of the exercise.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #999176
#40. No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #999525
#41. Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1081482
#42. Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1082124
#43. It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1085733
#44. I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1119954
#45. It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Putnam Quotes #1122785
#46. But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1165625
#47. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1167952
#48. I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition ... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

Putnam Quotes #1180600
#49. A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.

Israel Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1208643
#50. Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.

Robert Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1237157
#51. Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into a Lamaru hangout, right?

Stacia Kane

Putnam Quotes #1296423
#52. The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1299047
#53. Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1323466
#54. In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1417971
#55. And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Sigmund Freud

Putnam Quotes #1441732
#56. From the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard came a note from Professor F. W. Putnam, rapturous in his commendation of "your great work.

Timothy Egan

Putnam Quotes #1446628
#57. No experiment can distinguish between phenomena manifested by visiting interstellar (arbitrarily advanced) ETI and intelligent beings that may exist near Earth within a parallel universe or in different dimensions, or who are (terrestrial) time travelers.

Cris Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1513779
#58. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1514353
#59. Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1546608
#60. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

Israel Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1547816
#61. Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1549325
#62. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

George Haven Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1570993
#63. As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1586462
#64. Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

Bruce Swedien

Putnam Quotes #1597654
#65. Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1602290
#66. Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1650867
#67. Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Robert D. Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1690360
#68. The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1774089
#69. While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics ...

Hilary Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1777978
#70. The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Emily James Smith Putnam

Putnam Quotes #1828654
#71. Thou mutters, Miss Putnam. Speak up."
Like she couldn't hear. She'd hear Chess if Chess ran to the other end of the room, covered her mouth with her hands, and whispered "Fuck you," but she couldn't hear Chess standing four feet away from her.

Stacia Kane

Putnam Quotes #1840461

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