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All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. – John Cheever

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Perfection
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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. – John Cheever

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Family
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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. – Herbert Read

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Society

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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Society

But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

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Society

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. – Karl Marx

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Society

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A critic is a man who knows the way but cant drive the car. – Kenneth Tynan

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Whats very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship. – Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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One chops the wood, the other does the grunting. – Yiddish Proverb

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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. – Lou Holtz

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