Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner
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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.
Adam Dell
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
Irvine Welsh
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
Ian Somerhalder
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
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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.
Malorie Blackman
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
Sam Brownback
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
Damien Rice
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx
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We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.
Adam McKay
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving
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Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
Abu Bakar Bashir
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You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
Kathleen Turner
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Although neither nation has been brought to admit that they were chargeable with the first infraction, yet no American can forget the carrying off the negroes.
John Adams
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It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
Bette Davis
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I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.
Matt Berninger The National
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When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
Umar
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
Georgette Heyer