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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
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"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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"Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. [' Homeless down in the corner']"
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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
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"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."
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"Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change."
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"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
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"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
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"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."
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"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."
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"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
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"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
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"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
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"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
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"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise."
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"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
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"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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"The less men think, the more they talk."
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"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
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