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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

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• People don’t know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don’t trust the sources of the past.

  Daniel Pauly

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

  Daniel Goleman

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• All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

  Germaine Greer

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• Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

  George Whitefield

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• Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

  Lawrence Lessig

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• Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

  Cotton Mather

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• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all ‘pretend’ most of the time.

  Gary Gygax

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• Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

  Paul Theroux

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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  Fareed Rafiq Zakaria

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Elizabeth II

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• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  Abba Eban

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• Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

  William Dean Howells

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• Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we’re living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

  Howard Baker

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• Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

  Natan Sharansky

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• Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

  Natan Sharansky

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