A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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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.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
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Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
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Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Let.. Others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change.. Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
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Nothing ever gets settled in this town... A seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
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Society is a complex and mysterious creation and. It's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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The monopoly capitalists even while employing purely empirical methods weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are s
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
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