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- DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.
- Unknown
- Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
- Orrin Hatch, Republican senator
- Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
- Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London
- Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
- Robert Cecil
- It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
- Rule of Life
- Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
- Euell Gibbons
- When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
- Geoffrey F. Abert
- The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.
- Brian Sutton-Smith
- The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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