Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of rock music.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
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Society is founded upon Cloth.
