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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau 
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun
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