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You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is...… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples,… — Rick Wright Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does… — Joseph E. LeDoux Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality.… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
I felt lost in endless spools of social media. All the while, emails by the thousands were piling up, phone calls were… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them… — David Haye Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
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