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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Party, Years, Skating

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• I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Mean, Play, Focus

  "Danielle LaPorte | Multimedia Author, Speaker, Poet". Interview with Rachel Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Crazy, Sound, Want

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• I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Party, Years, House

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• I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

  Ronnie Dunn

  School, Years, Behinds

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• In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of collapse, we are in danger of doing the same with the environment. Humanity has taken a huge leap in the last decades and become a planetary-scale force - we need to behave as a global civilization if we are not to face catastrophic consequences.

  Felix Dodds

  Taken, Loss, Civilization

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• I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

  Hoda Kotb

  Workout, Nice, Coffee

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• For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.

  Daniel Goleman

  Learning, Anxiety, Challenges

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.156, Bantam

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• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  Warren Farrell

  Son, Boys, Men

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• Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

  Germaine Greer

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Girl, Brother, Boys

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• At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Roots, People, Worry

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• Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

  Daniel Tammet

  Happy Life, Media, Autism

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• But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, People, Dresses

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.281, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Smell, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

  Bill McKibben

  Littles, Corporations, Our Society

  Bill McKibben (2008). “The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life”, p.171, Macmillan

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• He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Solitude, Would Be

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

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• Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

  Temple Grandin

  Men, Fire, Autism

  "Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition)". Book by Temple Grandin, 2006.

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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• Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Sleep, Phones, Cells

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• I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing... I like to think before I speak (softly).

  Susan Cain

  Reading, Thinking, Talking

  "Susan Cain: Quiet revolutionary". Speaker profile at TED.com, February 2012.

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• Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

  Bell Hooks

  Strong, Powerful, Party

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