"If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life."

Social, Society, Order, Youth, Tradition

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"If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life."

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"All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all, that is the only difference."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

Social, Humor, Judgment, Prejudice, Respect

"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Social, Interest, Curiosity, Engagement, Communication

"The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Social, Poverty, Justice, Women, Equality

"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Social, Time, Judgment, Fun

"Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Social, Society, Change, Progress, Structure

"Did you see that dress? "I saw the dress. "Did you like it? He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance? When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school. I smiled and fell asleep."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Social, Dress, Reputation, Anxiety, Night

"I've never claimed to be civil," he said with a soft growl, flashing his canines."

Katie Reus, American Author

Social, Civilization, Behavior, Strength, Personality

"When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Social, Difference, Acceptance, People, Belonging

"You have every right in the world to choose the kind of people that you place in your inner circle. By all means stay clear from negative minded individuals who are constantly very bitter with their lives and the lives of others. They wouldn't be too happy to watch you live a blissful life."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Social, Choice, People, Positivity, Influence

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

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"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

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"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."

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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

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