"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

Society, Children, Credit, Fathers

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"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

John Green, American Author

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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Take responsibility for the city."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Society, Responsibility, Community, Leadership, Civic Duty

"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

Struggle, Depression, Mathematics, Curiosity, Suicide

"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."

Reasoning, Design, Argument, Survival, Nature

"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

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"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

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"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure."

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"The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system."

Science, Humanity, Future, Faith

"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."

Truth, Belief, Reality, Logic

"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."

Time, Wisdom, Thought, Feeling

"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."

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"The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful."

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