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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

How I Can Impact Individual
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Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

Biggest Bullied Bullies Bullying
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Feel Free Living Only
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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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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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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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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Become Century Disintegration Family
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The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Always Based Common Enduring
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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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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Civilization Culture Future Memory
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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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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Call Comfortably Enough Fits
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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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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountable Actions American Broken
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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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The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.

Analysis Between Democratic Democratic Society
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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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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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We will be a compassionate government, for out of compassion arises the truest forms of wealth and progress a society can attain.

Attain Society Wealth Arises
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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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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Build Business Civil Community
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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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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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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Belongs Class Culture How
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

About Away Being Ends
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Any Artist Express Feel
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I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

God Make More Our
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There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

Decay Done Just Lot
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The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

Aging Found Future Health
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Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

Organized Conscious people Different Kind
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Alone Cases Determine Human
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Enter Men Preservation Property
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society

Human Imagination Conceive Possibility
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Prince Government Dangerous Elements
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How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Accustomed Downright Earthquakes How
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Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Addictions Beneath Control Disease
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Any Future I Think More
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Because Busy IThink Now
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Beggars Know Society Western
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Aims Attitude Defined Future
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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