Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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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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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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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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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 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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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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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
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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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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
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My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
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More and more, our clients expect not only relevant advice, not only setting a road map or helping them plan, but being committed to business results.
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There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
