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"705 Society Quotes

I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.

Bother Personalty Describe Me
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I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

Adopted Been Biggest Family
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Character Determine Example Follow
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Blind Could Legacy Magic
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Cutting Down Element Later
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Depended Each Living Other
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Bite Boot Feeds Hand
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Each Free Imitate Other
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Adaptive Condemned Correspond Harmless
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I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

Animals Garden Grew House
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Adaptation Assume Behaviour Caused
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There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Advantage Because Been Just
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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Bath Cure Few Few Things
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

About Creativity Nemy Everything
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Accept Apparently Both Cambridge
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Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.

Any Audience Facing Gets
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Always Could Day Except
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In Sub Saharan Africa, a disciplined man is seen as wicked. A man with low self esteem is seen as humble. A confident man with adequate self esteem is seen as proud. A friendly girl is considered a flirt or lose.

Disciplined Humble Proud Confident
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Clothes Copy GeographiLeaf Live
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Brought Cereal Controversial Family
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Built Character Courageously Experience
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Along the way there will be success and setbacks; mistakes will be made but we will not take you for granted.

Success Mistakes Along Granted
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Because Code Important Symbolism
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I appeal to employers and workers alike to unite in raising productivity so that everybody will have the opportunity to share in increased prosperity.

Share Unite Appeal Worker
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education Every Family Information
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Between Calculations Choose Driven
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Race Class Money Distinctions
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Alike Beneficial Central Development
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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Understanding is a two-way street.

Street Two Way Two Way Street Understanding
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Cannot Effect Force Hate
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Begins Day Dead Just
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter
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It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Age Clever Criticism Critics
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Agreement Among Countries Disagreement
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Enemy Most Things Time-Consuming
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

Ability Any Blow Child
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Am Company Country Cured
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

About Anything Boxes Case
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Bad Bad Ones Good Lies
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Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

AnalytComing Early Had How
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