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"No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."
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"But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug."
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"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
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"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us."
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"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."
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"What fueled this hatred? Society."
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"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Military
"A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit."
Inspirational
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
History
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
Humor
"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
Communication
"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
Society
"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
Leadership
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
Duty
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
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