Social Life Quotes - Page 11

• You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

  John Green

  Taste In Music, Fantastic, Social

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• My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Real, Government, Judging

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• Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

  Emily Osment

  School, Acting, Social

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• The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

  Roger Scruton

  Sacrifice, Culture, Demand

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.

  Richard Pascale

  Learning, Heart, Knowledge

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.192, Harvard Business Press

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• My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Giving Up, Drinking, Bars

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• All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

  John Dewey

  Moral, Life Is, Share

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.345, Courier Corporation

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• For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Government, People

  "Social Statics: Great Essays".

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• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Community, Peculiar, Substance

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• I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  School, Way, Social

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• I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Lessons, Way

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

  Masaaki Imai

  Philosophy, Home, Kaizen

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• When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.

  Boy George

  New York, Culture, Going Out

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.

  Whit Stillman

  Crazy, People, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Teenager, Littles, Social

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Mean, Patriotic

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• Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Lying, Men

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• Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Thinking, People

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• We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

  Zakaria Tamer

  Country, Believe, Organization

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• The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

  C.P. Snow

  Technology, Eden, Space

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• Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Social, Company

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• I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

  Aly Raisman

  Brother, Blessed, Two

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