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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. – Jonathan Sacks

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If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher. – Jonathan Sacks

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Leadership
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Jonathan Sacks
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. – Jonathan Sacks

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Society
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Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. – Jonathan Sacks

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Freedom
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Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. – Hugh Kingsmill

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Society

Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt

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Society

You shouldnt get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious. – Kathleen Turner

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Society

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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Society

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A word also as to the cost of carriage: This is at present so high, whether the means be mail or express, that we may properly set it down as the chief obstacle to the free development of inter-library loans. – William Warner Bishop, “Inter-Library Loans,” 1909

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Libraries

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. – David Cameron

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The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with Chinas international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak. – Hu Jintao

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strength

With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. – Edward Everett

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Columbus Day