Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
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| Birth: | 26th September, 1892 |
| Death: | 1st November, 1970 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Professor, Sociologist |
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Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture and Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology.
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