"The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that."
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"We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly."
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"Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself."
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"We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city."
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"John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?"
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"The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods."
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"Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion."
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"We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society."
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"Our society has become an employee society."
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"What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion."
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"On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways."
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"Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress."
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"Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society."
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"We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society."
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"Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood."
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"Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of."
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"It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger."
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"Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways."
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"I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?"
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"It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one."
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