Emily Blackwell Quotes
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
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I don't do social media.
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
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Wonder, Carlyle declared, is the beginning of philosophy. It is not wonder, but rather the social enthusiasm which revolts from the sordidness of mean streets and the joylessness of withered lives, that is the beginning of economic science. Here, if in no other field, Comte's great phrase holds good: "It is for the heart to suggest our problems; it is for the intellect to solve them.... The only position for which the intellect is primarily adapted is to be the servant of the social sympathies.
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I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
