"In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times."
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"The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined."
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"To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible."
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"Games are the most social of all things on the web."
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"Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed."
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"Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me."
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"They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!"
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"My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position."
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"I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good."
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"The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all."
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"I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy"
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"Trade is a social act."
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"Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch."
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"North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social."
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"Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything."
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