Social Quotes - Page 28

• Being anti-social can also mean that you're aware of how annoying it is to be social.

  Dov Davidoff

  Mean, Annoying, Anti Social

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• The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Strong, Skills, Names

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• The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

  Bernie Sanders

  Giving Up, Struggle, Kids

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from May 14, 2015

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• The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is not only immoral it is bad economics. Why do Republicans always have money for war but not for those in need?

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid

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• Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

  Jim Yong Kim

  Goal, Care, Execution

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• Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order.

  Sterling M. McMurrin

  Commitment, Order, Practice

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• Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.

  Gisele Freund

  Photography, Character, Mean

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• Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

  Max Kozloff

  Photography, Everyday, Behaviour

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• Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Garden, Self

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• What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hypnosis, Culture, Way

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of labor in the long run best serves the selfish concerns of all individuals. The eminence of the market society is that its whole functioning and operation is the consummation of this principle.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Selfish, Division Of Labor

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• Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

  Mark Cuban

  Simple, Media, Fans

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• Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Technological Change, Ideas

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• In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.

  Paul Tournier

  Retirement, Eye, Thinking

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.12, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Social media changed my thought process and connected me to the rest of the world. And as I started connecting, the world started accepting me as I was. Nothing could be more satisfying.

  Narendra Modi

  Media, World, Accepting

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• In China, the social network is a bit different. But I am active there too.

  Narendra Modi

  Different, Social Network, China

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• Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

  Margaret Mead

  Motherhood, Fatherhood, Facts

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• I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Football, Running, Fighting

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

  Albert Bandura

  Reality, People, Overcoming

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• Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

  Albert Bandura

  Exercise, Self, Influence

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• I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

  Thomas Merton

  Acceptance, People, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.6, Sounds True

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• Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Struggle, Character, Social Behavior

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• No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

  Hermann Weyl

  Spiritual, Our Generation, Forever

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

  George Carlin

  Community, Groups, Doe

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