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Letter "S" » Society
«Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.»
«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
Author: G. B. Stern
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Society
| Keywords:
Airplanes, contribute, invents, optimist, optimists, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, pessimist, Pessimists
«Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
| About:
Anarchy,
Boys,
Society
| Keywords:
cower, cowering, cringe, inclinations, instincts, radical, rebel, revolutionary, transformation, undergo
«Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by the media, it's defined by it's background,whether your past is in Steel Mills, or Cotton Fields; whether you bled or cried during struggles; whether you acknowledge it or not,Black is inside. Defined by your racial background,the blood that flows deep in your veins. Black is not defined by the media, so before you ask me if I'm Black, take a look at what Black was before.Before Rap, before Hip-Hop, before Blues became Rock 'n Roll, before slave masters commanded slave ships, Before Jesus came, even before the Hebrew's hardship, Black was Black.And they didn't need the media to tell them that.»
«Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Business,
Society
| Keywords:
business community, Civil society, global, organizations, robust, skills
«Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Poverty,
Society
| Keywords:
poverty, social, the matter, the poor, uselessness
«Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Religion,
Society
| Keywords:
adopted, contradicts, every other, fulfilling, sanctifies
«Class in society is determined by voice»
«Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
civilized, disintegration, hostilities, hostility, menaced, menaces, menacing, perpetually, primary, The Menace
«For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
ale, dish, do the dishes, king, quart, quarts, The Dish
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