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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. – Robert A. Heinlein

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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. – Pauline Hanson

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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are societys heroes. – Guy Kawasaki

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. – James Connolly

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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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