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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – Julie Burchill

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Somethings happened in our society which I dont think is beneficial, and thats that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station – Ive been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports. – Bryan Cranston

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I think its great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. – Alexander Pope

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis

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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. – Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America. – Mark Kennedy

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