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Society Quotes
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
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"The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans."
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"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
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"Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English."
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"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
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"In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world."
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"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."
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"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
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"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption."
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"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
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"The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values."
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"In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis."
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"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
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"It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities."
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"The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges."
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"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
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"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
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"My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average."
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"If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?"
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"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing."
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"What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?"
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"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
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"You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from."
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"My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ."
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"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
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"Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies."
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"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."
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"We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet."
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"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."
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