“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”
— Charles Kuralt
Author: Charles Kuralt
Category: society
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I believe that writers, unless they consider
“I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.”
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Category: society
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But investment in space stimulates society, it
“But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.”
— Bill Nye
Author: Bill Nye
Category: society
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I have, in some ways, saved characters
“I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.”
— Jodie Foster
Author: Jodie Foster
Category: society
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
— Karl Marx
Author: Karl Marx
Category: society
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The progress of society is mainly the
“The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
Category: society
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American society is a sort of flat,
“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
— Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
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It is a strange fact that freedom
“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”
— Thomas Mann
Author: Thomas Mann
Category: society
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Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable
“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
Author: Herman Kahn
Category: society
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Individual versus group selection results in a
“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.”
— E. O. Wilson
Author: E. O. Wilson
Category: society
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By focusing once and for all on
“By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.”
— Natan Sharansky
Author: Natan Sharansky
Category: society
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