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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misu

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader

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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see whats happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. – Henning Mankell

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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they dont at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and unto God that which is Gods. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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She has no imagination and that means no compassion. – Michael Foot

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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. – Richard Cecil

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In America, we have three major sports – baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then theres things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. – Maurice Greene

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