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The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth, prosperity; chasing… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
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Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
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The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
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For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
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The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been… — Elise Hu Copy Share Image
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So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
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