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Society Quotes
"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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"Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed."
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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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"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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"Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class."
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"I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."
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"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists."
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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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"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"
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"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."
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"Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness."
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"But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented."
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"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
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"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now."
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"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
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"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
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"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."
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"Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other."
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"Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against."
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"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
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"Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations."
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"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
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"It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know."
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"It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone."
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"If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president."
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"We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us."
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"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."
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"Write about society as news and treat it like sociology."
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"Unsuccessful people are seduced by celebrity, name and fame."
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"According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002."
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"He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else."
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"Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men."
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"Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."
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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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"They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash."
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"The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition."
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"There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just one person still wants them around. After all, one thing leads to another, old inventions are the basis for new ones, inventors and designers and scientists and hobbyists worked hard to create all these things, so don't they deserve some respect, enough not to have their ideas buried in the dust by the latest trends and fads?"
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