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Quote by Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemake

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, youd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Age
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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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Society

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. – Honore de Balzac

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Society

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic… power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. – Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 1969

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Society

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. – James Earl Jones

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Society

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It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. – Georgie Anne Geyer

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God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk. – Leon Spinks

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

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