"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.“
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"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."
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"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
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"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace."
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"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
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"The whole system of society tells you what to do."
-Barry White
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"I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't."
-Frances O'Grady
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"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
-Kenneth L. Pike
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"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."
-David Korten
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"RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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