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• Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Genius, Spirit, Wit

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• Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
  High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

  James Montgomery

  Long, Pelicans, Prime

  James Montgomery (1827). “The Pelican Island, and other poems”, p.49

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• How sociable the garden was.
  We ate and talked in given light.
  The children put their toys to grass
  All the warm wakeful August night.

  Thom Gunn

  Summer, Children, Night

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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• The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

  William Blackstone

  Art, Science, Branches

  Sir William Blackstone (1860). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.19

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• What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Solitude

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life Arthur Schopenhauer". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Nice, Giving

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

  Mark Twain

  Cities, San Francisco, Bay Area

  Mark Twain, Bernard Taper (1963). “Mark Twain's San Francisco”, p.12, Heyday

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• A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intelligent, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1988). “Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes: Berlin manuscripts (1818-1830)”, Berg Publishers

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• Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

  Eleanor Duckworth

  Real, Joyful, Exciting

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• She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

  Louise Fletcher

  Uncles, Kids, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Party, People

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• It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

  Emily Bronte

  Feels, Astonishing

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.373, Penguin

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• The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (2012). “Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.

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• He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Government, Self, Data

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.444, Macmillan

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• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  Demosthenes

  Brother, Ideas, Differences

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• You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.

  Christa Wolf

  Love You, Good Friend, Love Is

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• To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

  Tony Abbott

  Hate, Marijuana, Ideas

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• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Opportunity, Vocabulary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Learning, Cutting, Math

  James Joseph Sylvester (1877). “Address Delivered by J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S. (corresponding Member of the Institute of France), Professor of Mathematics, at Johns Hopkins University on Commemoration Day, February 22, 1877”

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• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Technology, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Gentleman, Chairs

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• I'm a sociable person. I want people to know where the f - I came from.

  Obie Trice

  People, Want, Persons

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.

  Nicki Minaj

  Growing Up, Fun, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

  Gertrude Stein

  Adventure, These Days, Regularity

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.136, Random House

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