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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You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
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Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
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Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
