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SOCIETY

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(434 votes)  Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Submitted by: 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(427 votes)  Appearance is life's greatest deceit; and alcohol isn't far behind

Greg Evans
Suspense Novelist
Submitted by: Suspense Novelist

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(419 votes)  Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Rhonda Britten
Life Coach, Author, and Founder of the Fearless Living Institute
Submitted by: Life Coach, Author, and Founder of the Fearless Living Institute

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(412 votes)  There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993
Submitted by: South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(394 votes)  Our greatest human need is to feel connected, to belong.

Rhonda Britten
Life Coach, Author, and Founder of the Fearless Living Institute
Submitted by: Life Coach, Author, and Founder of the Fearless Living Institute

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(393 votes)  The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Buddha
Buddhism Founder, 563-483 B.C.
Submitted by: Buddhism Founder, 563-483 B.C.

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(383 votes)  Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy, in a certain way. But nations are not like people in the sense that we are cumulatively represented by others - and their interpretations of what our interests are may not be the same as what they really are. And that's what's dangerous, even in a democracy.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967
Submitted by: American Musician - b 1967

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(383 votes)  It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones,” Mr Mandela has said.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993
Submitted by: South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(378 votes)  Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha
Buddhism Founder, 563-483 B.C.
Submitted by: Buddhism Founder, 563-483 B.C.

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(373 votes)  If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993
Submitted by: South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(373 votes)  These days lies flow like a river and while truth evaporates like a puddle on the ground.

HJN
Submitted by: Anonymous

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(354 votes)  The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967
Submitted by: American Musician - b 1967

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(350 votes)  These days lies flow like a river and while truth evaporates like a puddle on the ground.

HJN
Submitted by: Anonymous

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(349 votes)  Common sense isn't so common anymore.

BBC
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(343 votes)  What good is freewill do if we just follow the crowds.

HJN
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(341 votes)  The way we act these days can we realy call this civilizaton?

HJN
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(328 votes)  Being right is not common these days considering the amount of people who disagree.

HJN
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(306 votes)  We worry about entire nations while our neighbor is starving

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-
Submitted by: American Writer 1978-

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(293 votes)  Poor neighborhoods all look the same: run-down, graffiti covered, garbage strewn, crime-riddled etc. Affluent ones all look the same as well: clean, crime-free, big homes, expensive cars, manicured lawns. Why the hell then doesn't everyone vote like an affluent!

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-
Submitted by: American Writer 1978-

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