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When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how…
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
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Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
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Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and…
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,…
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If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt…
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our…
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Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
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Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced…
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism…
— Mark Carney
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Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
— Robert D. Putnam
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Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous…
— Robert D. Putnam
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What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and…
— Robert D. Putnam
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Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making…
— Thomas Sowell
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Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that…
— Achim Steiner
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In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible…
— Evgeny Morozov
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