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#societies

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In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.


Deepak Chopra


#better #engaged #everybody #health #live

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.


Helen Clark


#equality #gender #include #more #serious

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.


Jean Cocteau


#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.


Jared Diamond


#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.


Northrop Frye


#ancient #back #being #convention #due

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.


Jared Diamond


#attributable #between #biological #broadest #continental

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.


David Frum


#economic #economic issues #environment #environmental #environmental issue

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.


Michael Gambon


#clubs #collect #dinners #discuss #firearms

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.


Marcus Garvey


#anglo-saxon #as far as #better #clubs #concerned

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.


Dennis Hastert


#democracy #fight #freedom #grow #happens






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