#soc

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. ↗

— Shaun White

#before #beginning #closer #dad #even

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#around #been #built #commerce #community

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exists #individuals #mental #only #real

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#exactly #extremely #good #holds #opinion

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ↗

— George Will

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#class #country #everyday #forget #great

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#better #disorder #feeling #i #moment