"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."

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"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A woman is always buying something."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Society, Pride, Want, Relationship, Values

"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Society, Culture, Religion, Influence, Observation

"Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation's history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."

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"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."

Time, Police

"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."

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"For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven."

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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

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"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."

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"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"

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"We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day."

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"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."

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"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."

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