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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Social, Improvement, Quality, Motives

• The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Social, Political, Necessary

• Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

  Daniel Inouye

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• Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

  Dennis Cardoza

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• Privatizing Social Security doesn’t make sense, and it’s out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

  Debbie Stabenow

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• Social Security is not just the foundation of America’s retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state’s economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

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• We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

  Debbie Stabenow

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• Fiction is socially Fiction meaningful.

  David Guterson

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• The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

  David Riesman

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• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that’s fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  Bryan Adams

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  Tags in Media, Social

• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in People, Dangerous, Social

• For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that’s all my music is, trying to help people.

  Iris DeMent

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  Tags in Music, Interested, Social

• If you don’t have 30 years to devote to social policy, don’t get involved.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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• My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

  Maurice Sendak

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  Imre Lakatos

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• People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction… but N.Y. and Chicago are like London… L.A. lacks the social interaction.

  Seal

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• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel – especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  Ian McEwan

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• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

  David Eddings

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• We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

  David E. Kelley

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• All too often, government’s response to social breakdown has been a classic case of ‘patching’ – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour.

  Iain Duncan Smith

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  Tags in Social, Government, Behaviour