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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me.

  John Sayles

  Agendas, Fronts

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• In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Thinking, Support

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• Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Instinct, Currency, Reciprocity

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.47, Basic Books

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• Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

  James Frey

  Shopping, Novelists, Bags

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Men, Giving

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• Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Order, Russia

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• As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ideas, Flags, Movement

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein kampf, complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Educational, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Generosity, Nonprofits, Social Change

  "Do You Give in the Dark? Some Scary Philanthropic Realities" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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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.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Mean, Thinking, Creating

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• So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.

  Herbert Croly

  Spiritual, Country, Order

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• 24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.

  Will Hutton

  Children, Erosion, Years

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• Dependency encourages social problems.

  Jim DeMint

  Problem, Social Problems, Dependency

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• Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

  Jim DeMint

  Progressive, Policy, Mess

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• A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

  William James

  Thinking, Hands, Facts

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Numbers, Degrees, Unions

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• I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Writing, Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.267, e-artnow

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• Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.

  James Dobson

  Appreciation, Real, Caring

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• There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Skills, Important, Velocity

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• Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.

  Anne Fontaine

  Numbers, Political, Desire

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

  Pamela Yates

  Struggle, Cinema, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Thinking, People

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• The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

  Rand Paul

  Retirement, Age, Way

  "We Are Live Blogging the GOP Presidential Debate in Colorado" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2015.

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