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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Social

"Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together."

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Bryan Adams Singer-Songwriter
Social

"If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Social

"We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being."

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Alan Ball Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Social

"Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable."

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Sean Parker Entrepreneur
Social

"At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups."

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Social

"What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material."

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Herbert Simon Economist
Social

"The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful."

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