Famous Quotes: Society

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
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I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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My religion lies in my composition.
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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
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There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.
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I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
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Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
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Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
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Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
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