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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
– Alvin Toffler
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
– Leon Trotsky
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
– Harry S. Truman
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I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
– Marlo Thomas
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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
– Strom Thurmond
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
– Nat Turner
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Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
– Henry Van Dyke
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
– Ludwig von Mises
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
– Bill Vaughan
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
– Bill Vaughn
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
– Bill Vaughn
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
– Marquis de Vauvenargues
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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
– Voltaire
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
– Alice Walker
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
– Alice Walker
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
– Simone Weil
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
– Orson Welles
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
– Jessamyn West
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
– Oscar Wilde
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
– Oscar Wilde
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
– Oscar Wilde
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
– George F. Will
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
– Woodrow Wilson
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
– Naomi Wolf
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
– Naomi Wolf
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I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
– Elijah Wood
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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
– Howard Zinn
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
– Randolph Bourne
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
– Robertson Davies
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Krishnamurti
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
– Thomas Szasz
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
– Bill Vaughan
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You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
– Colin Farrell
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You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
– Kathleen Turner
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You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.
– Alice Cooper
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You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.
– Shailene Woodley
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
– Adam Carolla
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
– Bashar al-Assad
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You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
– Bruce Springsteen
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
– Karen Armstrong
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
– Candace Bushnell
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Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
– Scott Adams
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
– Erica Jong
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Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
– Jenny McCarthy
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Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
– Joaquin Phoenix
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When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
– Tom Vilsack
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
– H. Rap Brown
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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
– Clarence Thomas
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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.
– Michael Bloomberg
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
– K. D. Lang
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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.
– Charles Kuralt
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
– Isaac Asimov
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
– Anna Deavere Smith
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
– Carl Sandburg
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What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
– Colin Powell
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What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
– Dean Koontz
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
– Walter Lippmann
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What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
– Joseph Smith, Jr.
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What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
– Jenny McCarthy
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
– Erykah Badu
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
– Herbert Read
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What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
– Irv Kupcinet
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Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.
– Sebastian Junger
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
– George McGovern
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
– Tom Stoppard
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Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
– Milton Friedman
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We've turned into a whining society.
– Billy Corgan
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
– K. D. Lang
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We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
– LL Cool J
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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
– James Hillman
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We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
– Oliver Tambo
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We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.
– Simon Mainwaring
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We need proof in our society.
– Shirley MacLaine
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
– Joe Biden
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
– Anne Lamott
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.
– Madeleine Albright
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We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
– Martin Sheen
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We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
– Neil LaBute
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
– Brit Hume
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We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.
– Mehmet Oz
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We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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We are what make up society.
– Tom Shadyac
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
– R. D. Laing
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Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
– Peter Mullan
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Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
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Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
– Ahmet Necdet Sezner
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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
– V. S. Naipaul
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
– Shirley Chisholm
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
– John Burroughs
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Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
– Sebastian Junger
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Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
– Roger Goodell
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