"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Society, Affection, Man, Security

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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

Society, Loneliness, World, Isolation

"Take responsibility for the city."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"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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"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

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"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

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"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Take responsibility for the city."

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

"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."

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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

"Into each life some rain must fall."

"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

"Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."