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There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
– Jacqueline Bisset
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
– Irvine Welsh
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There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.
– Lynette Fromme
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
– George Byron
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There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
– Keith O'Brien
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
– Mark Zuckerberg
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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
– Anwar Sadat
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
– C. J. Cherryh
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
– Ted Olson
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
– Albert J. Nock
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
– Garrett Hardin
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
– William H. Seward
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The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
– Theresa May
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The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves.
– James Welch
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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
– Alfred Adler
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
– Christian Lous Lange
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
– David Antin
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
– Anita Hill
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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
– Christopher Lasch
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
– Jacques Delors
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The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
– Jonathan Kozol
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
– Bell Hooks
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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
– Boris Spassky
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
– E. M. Forster
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
– Rollo May
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The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
– Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
– Michael D. Higgins
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The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
– Dorothy Fields
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
– Madeleine Albright
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
– Noam Chomsky
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The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
– Howard Cosell
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
– Edmund Wilson
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The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
– Evelyn Glennie
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
– Paddy Ashdown
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The great hope of society is in individual character.
– William Ellery Channing
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
– Fareed Zakaria
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
– Gaston Caperton
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
– Talcott Parsons
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The family is the first essential cell of human society.
– Pope John XXIII
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
– Kit Williams
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
– John Clayton
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The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
– Peter Hammill
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The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
– June Jordan
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The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
– Neil Jordan
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The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
– Ai Weiwei
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
– Lascelles Abercrombie
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The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
– David Smith
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
– Ulrich Beck
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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
– Terry Pratchett
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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
– Herbert Read
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
– Nicolas Chamfort
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That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
– Jeff Bridges
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
– Charles Dickens
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
– Iain Banks
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Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
– Kenzo Tange
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
– Mark Skousen
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Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
– Alexander Skarsgard
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
– Thomas Paine
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Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
– John Grierson
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Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
– Gene Robinson
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Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
– Martin Yan
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
– James Russell Lowell
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Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
– Jesse Eisenberg
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Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
– Tomas Transtromer
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
– Bertolt Brecht
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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
– Elton Gallegly
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
– Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
– Jacques Barzun
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Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
– Hugh Miller
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Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
– Keith O'Brien
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
– Garrett Hardin
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
– Victoria Woodhull
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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
– Elisabeth Shue
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Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
– Edward Bond
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
– William Robertson Smith
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Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.
– Keith O'Brien
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Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
– Herman Kahn
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Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
– Chili Davis
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
– Thomas Sowell
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Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
– Jose Padilha
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
– John Hodgman
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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
– Henry Louis Gates
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
– Natan Sharansky
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
– Denis Diderot
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
– Philip Guston
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Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
– Tipper Gore
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
– Zachary Quinto
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Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
– Billy Graham
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
– John Boyd Orr
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
– John Charles Polanyi
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