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"705 Society Quotes

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Does Gained Hearing Intellect
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Average Ego Every Extent
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If youth knew; if age could.

Age Could Knew Youth
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Another Civilized Civilized Society Disintegration
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Behavior Character Large Merely
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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Age Better Doing Get
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I think what Punjab needs today is vigorous economic development and rebuilding of trust and social cohesion.

Cohesion Development Economic Needs
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The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.

Above Basic Below Certain
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The Beatles will go on and on.

Beatles Go Will
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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Contribute Defeat Enormous I Tried
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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

About Earth Even Got
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Contribution Heard Little Make
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Accessible Almost Anyone Difference
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

America Change Could Former
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My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

Because Change Children Come
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Cosmic Guru I Can India
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

When People See Actor
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.

Always Dinner There Load
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Alternative Around Importantly Key
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You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

All People Best Dreams Focus
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Civilized Civilized Society Doubtful Eccentricity
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Against Beginners Business Market
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Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

American Chance Creative Everyone
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We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.
Done Go Good Ourselves
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I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Earn Heart Massachusetts Out
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I have to prove myself to everybody.

Everybody Myself Prove Have
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Against Because Best Cream
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Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

Everyone Me Nice Saying
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The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Child Happen Many Seen
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Any Believe Curiosity Delight
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Any Battle Being Best
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Able Been Dislike Has Been
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Lord, help my poor soul.

Help Lord Poor Soul
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Balancing Budget Closer Come
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics Lie Many Strengths
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Against Everything People Time
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Criminal Deserves Enforcement
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No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

About Community Democratic Democratic Society
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Adult Aspirations Attitudes Becomes
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Accept Any Been Career
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In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

Activities Before Cases Come
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I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Bad Been Expect Getting
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I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Back Bad Did Driving
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The public has become my fairy godmother.

Become Fairy Godmother Public
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Always Because Cast General
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