Jacob Bronowski Quotes
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Quotes to Explore
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Nothing ever goes away.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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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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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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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 permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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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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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.
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My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
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I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
