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Society Quotes
"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
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"The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative."
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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
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"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
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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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"Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so."
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"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
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"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
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"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."
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"While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi."
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"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should."
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"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
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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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"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."
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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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"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."
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"I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged."
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"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty."
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"Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces."
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"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering."
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"If each and one of us understands the essence of human values, we will be able to sustain our civilization by living in tranquility and embrace the opportunities that each of us can contribute to our society."
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"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand."
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"Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society."
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
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"A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes."
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"In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties."
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
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"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
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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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"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."
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"When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society."
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"Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated."
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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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