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society culture littles
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. William Bolitho
society impossible sometimes
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. William Makepeace Thackeray
society
Cinema is a reflection of its own society. Shohreh Aghdashloo
society may next
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. James Russell Lowell
society deceiving deceived
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. Eric Hoffer
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society
Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The? Keith Waterhouse
society supposed
Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say. Sam Kinison
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
tragedy skinny sage
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy. Richelle Mead
tragedy may realizing
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms. Reinhold Niebuhr
tragedy links ruins
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links. William Manchester
tragedy culture warning
Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan. William McDonough
tragedy hungry hours
Tragedies come in the hungry hours. Virginia Woolf
tragedy faces looks
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. Saul Alinsky
tragedy purpose behinds
The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through. Robin Roberts
tragedy shells way
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell. Milan Kundera
tragedy violence bombs
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence. Mahatma Gandhi
development world internet
That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history. William J. Clinton
development levels characteristics
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption. Robert Trout
development trends domination
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. Vladimir Lenin
development sin accepting
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
development systematic events
If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory. Willard Van Orman Quine
development definitions language
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language. William Stafford
development dynasty politics
Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good. Narendra Modi
development environment should
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development. Orison Swett Marden
development interiors exterior
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. Ken Wilber