Quotes 41 till 60 of 564.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54 -
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
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A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
A Thousand Splendid Suns -
A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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