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Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.
Adrienne Mayor
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Historian
Archery
Greece
Nomadic
Rome
Tribes
Centered
Classical
Unlike
Horses
Societies
Patriarchal
Settled
Stayed
Weave
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Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
John Podhoretz
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Writer
Jobs
Crave
Job Creators
People
Risk
Risk-taking
Security
Stability
Workers
Job
People Security American
Less
Creators
Societies
Rather
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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.
Peter L. Berger
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Sociologist
Democratic
Elsewhere
Market Economy
Term
Western
Apart
Prefer
Be True
Societies
Systems
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In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Singaporean Politician
War
Successful
West
World War Ii
Seen
Less
Came
Fulfill
Societies
Obligations
World War
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And what are we going to leave for future generations? Are we going to leave them only buildings, cars? Or are we going to create more empathetic, more diverse societies more open to diversity?
Daniela Vega
/
Diverse
Empathetic
Generations
Buildings
Future Generations
Societies
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey
/
Publisher
Friends
Anglo Saxon
Clubs
Concerned
Groups
Hypocritical
Pride
Race
Regard
Together
White
American
As Far As
Far
Put
Societies
Other
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I do sort of question the notion that conservatives should try and turn America into a place where people can come from traditional societies and continue to be fully traditional in every sense.
Amy Wax
/
Notion
Conservatives
Societies
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The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.
Borje Ekholm
/
Equality
Drivers
Economic
Economic Growth
Growth
Industry
Telecom
Greatest
Seen
Corner
Ever
Societies
Private
Private Lives
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Tony Snow
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Former White House Press Secretary
Believe
Blessing
Destiny
Liberty
Spread
Blessings
Depend
Free Societies
Societies
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No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
Christopher Dawson
/
Historian
Path
Aware
Forces
Intellectually
Lies
Societies
Nearer
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan
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Writer
Allowing
Blinded
Danger
Democratic
Entertaining
Identity
Passion
Serious
Democratic Societies
Illusions
Societies
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I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.
Louis Begley
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Novelist
Gifted
Law
Paramount
Rule Of Law
Successful
Thinking
Distinct
Jews
Societies
Wherever
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When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.
David Cage
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Musician
Cool
Technology
Talk
Same
Often
Deeply
Fact
Societies
Same Time
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Every educated and intelligent person glories in the freedom of women in Western societies to exercise their talents to the full and their freedom to walk safely in the streets of our great cities.
Peter Hitchens
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Journalist
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Streets
Talents
Societies
Safely
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
Gary Becker
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Economist
Marriage
Children
Fighting
Married
Work Men Women
Activities
Agricultural
Almost All
Bearing
Work Women Men
Market
Married Men
Societies
Rearing
Specialized
Whereas
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Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
Margaret Wertheim
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Writer
Genes
Mathematical
University
Women Are
Barred
Cultural
Deeply
Ingrained
Innately
Societies
Scientific
Suited
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I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.
Ann Nocenti
/
Fascination
Centuries
Cultures
Evolved
Societies
Underground
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It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able to undermine pagan morality and the ancient institution of slavery.
Michael Shellenberger
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Ancient
Capitalism
Mobile
Morality
Pagan
Prosperous
Slavery
Workers
Rise
Freer
Institution
Societies
Undermine
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord
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Writer
Accumulation
Conditions
Immense
Modern
Moved
Representation
Spectacles
Accumulate
Away
Itself
Directly
Production
Societies
Presents
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Former President Of The Philippines
Creation
Liberty
Legitimate
Societies
Primary
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
Gary Gygax
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Writer
Encouragement
Behavior
Children
Culture
Imitation
Observation
Suggestions
Various
Course
Cultures
Pretend
Societies
Suggestion
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams
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Author
Abuse
Basic Human Rights
Contempt
Democratic
Fanatics
Hands
Human Rights
Religious
Rights
Animate
Basic
Believers
Betrays
Democratic Societies
Societies
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Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless would probably spend it on fast food and cheap beer, not on fruit or education.
Rutger Bregman
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Beer
Fast Food
Fruit
Handle
Homeless
Poor
Poor People
Cheap
Fast
Spend
Societies
Presume
Tend
Unable
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Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.
Mark Kurlansky
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Journalist
History Food Culture
Societies
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The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.
Greg Grandin
/
Chile
Decades
Socialist
Well Known
Coup
Democratically
Societies
Salvador
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The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
/
Md
Health
Given
Hunger
Malnutrition
Needs
Scourge
Women People Will
Women Are
Health Women People
Basic
Dual
Full
Met
Societies
Rightful
Role
Truly
Vanquished
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We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.
Tim Bishop
/
U.s. Representative
Jobs
Care
Health Care
Thinking
Tied
Hire
Societies
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Marvin Minsky
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Scientist
Car
Differences
Example
Left
Single
Rules
All The Difference
Difference
Drives
For Example
Individuals
Makes
Societies
No Difference
Right
Sense
Whether
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
Barry Ritholtz
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Author
Cycles
Decades
Eras
Lifetime
Periods
Beliefs
Fashions
Societies
Observations
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister Of India
Indian
Temperament
Absorb
World People America
Societies
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Notwithstanding the supposed egalitarian ethos of some hunter-gatherer societies, humans are a hierarchical social species. We care greatly about where we stand in comparison to some relevant reference group.
Gad Saad
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Scientist
Comparison
Ethos
Relevant
Species
Egalitarian
Greatly
Hierarchical
Societies
Notwithstanding
Reference
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
Joan D. Vinge
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Author
Queens
Inspiration
Past
Snow
Writing
Drew
Frequently
Queen
Inspirations
Involve
Suppose
Societies
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We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of war drops as more of a country's citizens receive a secondary education.
Julia Gillard
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Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Secondary Education
Drops
Literate
Societies
Participate
Receive
Secondary
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Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.
G. Willow Wilson
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Writer
Burden
Representation
Men Women Dress
Distinct
Women Men Dress
Mode
Societies
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A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.
Rocky Carroll
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Actor
Queens
History Books
Monarchs
Norm
World History
Absolute
History Society Great
Democratic Societies
Dictators
Societies
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Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
Michael Mandelbaum
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Professor
Cities
Culture
Tall
Towers
World Trade
World Trade Center
Buildings
Center
Cultures
Twin
Grandest
Highly
Monumental
Societies
Noted
Raise
Tallest
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Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
Katharine Viner
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Clarity
Account
Holding
Journalists
Societies
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Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.
Lawrence Wright
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Author
Authoritarianism
Coal
Concentration
Corruption
Inherent
Natural Resources
Depend
Diamonds
Leads
Limited
Societies
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Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
Samantha Power
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Director For Multilateral Affairs
Democratic
Groups
Persecution
Shrinking
Deferred
Economic Times
Reforms
Minority
Societies
Throughout
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Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.
Dennis Hastert
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Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Jobs
Fighting
Law
Lifts
People
Poverty
Rule Of Law
Terrorism
Creates
Societies
Rule
Stabilize
Strengthen
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Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.
Jose Mujica
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President Of Uruguay
Consumption
Eight
Our Planet
Resources
Today
Waste
Billion
Harming
Societies
Same Level
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I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
Douglass North
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Economist
Clear
Graduate School
Graduates
Intention
School
Way
Life Work My Life
Economies
Fail
Graduate
Societies
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What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false.
Kameron Hurley
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Fiction Writer
Ideals
Static
Egalitarian
False
Societies
Patently
Straight Line
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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond
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Scientist
Space
Globalization
Interdependence
Islands
Relevant
Thinking
Increasing
Lest
Societies
Risks
Space And Time
Worldwide
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
Christiane Amanpour
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Journalist
Civil Society
Democracy
Emerging
Form
Iran
Play
Russia
States
Yugoslavia
Authoritarian
Basis
Civil
Fact
In Fact
Journalists
Societies
Role
Vital
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The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence.
John Gerzema
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Emergence
Gains
Grows
Masculine
Signals
Traditional
Challenged
Highly
Societies
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Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.
Margaret Macmillan
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Historian
Manage
Constrained
Societies
Observe
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The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
Shirin Ebadi
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Lawyer
Acknowledge
Certain
Country
Desirable
Differences
Islamic
Condition
Countries
Far
However
Societies
Worse
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Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.
Anand Giridharadas
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Loss
Magic
Marginalized
Millions
Pluralism
Revolt
Assume
Experienced
Flourishes
Societies
Occurs
Powers
Proper
Victories
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The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons. They produce too much energy when societies don't need it and not enough energy when they do.
Michael Shellenberger
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Decline
Electricity
Wind
Grid
Societies
Shares
Solar
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