Mark Twain Quotes
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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'Huh,' Sepak thought, marveling how much one could learn by just sitting still and observing. It wasn’t a skill one learned in the frenetic pace of modern society.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.
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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
