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Society Quotes
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment."
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"I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit."
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"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
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"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."
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"Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day."
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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."
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"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."
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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
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"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
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"Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society."
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"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
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"Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large."
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"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
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"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
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"If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns."
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"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
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"The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption."
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"Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves."
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"A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state."
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"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."
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"People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves."
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"With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage."
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"Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension."
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"While other girls were blurry, displaying cracks or, at the very least, seams - ripped jeans, coffee-stained T-shirts, hair that poufed up in the rain - Sophia always looked sharp, clear, as if the resolution had been turned up on a microscope and angled straight at her, as if the money had formed a kind of shrink wrap that kept her protected from the normal destruction of the everyday."
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"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society."
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"I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form."
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"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny."
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"Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states."
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"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record."
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"This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society."
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"We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt."
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"The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful."
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